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Re: partition Magic to Linux



Hello Schlomo,

I can't speak for Eran, but I occasionally use raw partition images in the 
following scenario:

1) Security auditing: Following a compromise, it will most likely be required
for one to analyze the attack conducted on a particular system.
I find it easier and safer to deal with raw images when they are mounted
under the ro and noexec options. This cannot be done when using a compressed
archive of one's '/' filesystem hierarchy. 

I'm sure there are other reasons to use raw images, I simply can't think
of any right now. 

	Regards, Yotam Rubin


P.S.: Please don't CC me in the future, I am subscribed to the list.
     


On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 12:33:21PM +0200, Schlomo Schapiro wrote:
> But why would you ever want to create a bitmap image of your harddisk
> ? Just make a tar.bz2 archive from it and you wille ven save a lot of
> space (namely all the free space on the source disk).
> 
> Unlike Windows or NT, there is absolutely no added value to keeping the
> harddisk as a bitmap image. In any case you'll have to re-run lilo (or
> similars) after restoring and in any case you should keep a rescue linux
> handy.
> 
> Just MHO
> 
> Schlomo
> 
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