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Re: partition Magic to Linux



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

On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Yotam Rubin wrote:

> Hello,
> You downloaded partition magic for Linux just to clone a partition?
> That could have been done easily with dd: dd if=/dev/hd?? of=/tmp/image.hd??
> This will create you an exact copy of the partition and place it in /tmp.
> As for the size of your newly created image, it should take 600 MB in addition
> to a few bytes which contain filesystem dependent information (Permissions...)
> 
> 
> 	Regards, Yotam Rubin
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 04:35:32AM +0200, Eran Levy wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have downloadedpartition magic for linux to make an image backup to my
> > FileSystems.If I have 600MB and I image them, what will be the MBs of the 
> > image?
> >
> >
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