Re: [TCLUG:14370] Linuxcare contact

[<Nick.T.Reinking@supervalu.com>]

As much as this seems to be a common solution to "cloning" that
the Linux world likes to use, what about the 2GB filesize limit?  I can't
dd my machines like that, because ext2 can't handle anything bigger
than a 2GB file.  Or perhaps most everybody out there these days has 
Alphas, and I've just missed the boat...

Nick Reinking





lerwick@tcfreenet.org, on 03/06/2000 02:10:15 AM
To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org @ PMDF
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Subject: Re: [TCLUG:14370] Linuxcare contact

> > Wouldn't it be cool to have a program like Symantec's Ghost for Linux?
> > I've used it from time to time on some Win9x boxes, and it really works
> > quite well.
> 
> It's called dd :-)
> 
> 2 drives of the same geometry and you can dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb

What if they're not...

tar.gz the files, and use some dd hackery to store MBR's and
bootsectors? ...

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