[vox-tech] Utility to image a hard drive

[Alex Mandel]

Oh I guess I left off the part of the sentence where I meant to say
there are some tools that do account for free space and leave them out
of the image. I think partimage which is on the clonezilla disc is the
tool I'm thinking of.

Alex

Alex Mandel wrote:
> The classic tool is dd which makes a byte for byte exact copy, but this
> includes the free space.
> I can't remember what it's called right now but I'm sure it's on
> http://www.clonezilla.org/
> 
> Which you'll have to do from a live disc anyways so get yourself a copy
> and boot it up with the external drive attached and you should be good
> to go.
> 
> Alex
> 
> Thomas Johnston wrote:
>> I installed Debian (lenny) on my laptop last week and it is my first
>> exposure to Linux.  I was wondering if anyone had a recommendation for
>> a utility to "image" my laptop's hard drive to an external drive.  I
>> would like to perform some kind of complete system backup now that I
>> have the absolute essentials working.  There are lots of tweaks that I
>> would like to try (nvidia graphics driver, sleep/resume functionality,
>> etc, etc.), but I am certain that I will wind up royally screwing
>> things up.  If possible, I would like to avoid spending another week
>> just getting back to where I am now.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Thomas Johnston
>>
>> PS - Thanks again to all those who helped me get Matlab installed!!
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