Imaging Hard Drives

[Bernie Hoefer]

     Sorry for the late reply.  I got kind of busy a few days this week.

On 2016-08-29 13:04 EST, Kevin Hunter Kesling wrote:
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> I suppose the piece
> I was keying in on with my suggestion of dd was the phrasing "to the
> *exact* condition" in your original message.  With dd, I know exactly
> what I'm getting (withstanding the empty_file_of_zeros), to the bit
> level.  How exact a condition do you require?  Does partimage place the
> files back exactly in the spot on the image from where they originally
> were (e.g., inodes, relative image geometry)?
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     Ah, very good point.  A quick look at their FAQ's XFS section
states that it "even keeps location of files on the disk, then the
vmlinuz file won't be moved, and LILO will continue to work."  So yes,
it appears to put files back exactly where they originally were.

===
> Heh.  I suppose I'm really old school and like my CLI tools:
> 
>   $ dd if=/dev/sdX | pigz | split --bytes 2G
> 
> :-)
===
     I like old school.  It is just that I was such a goof off, I never
learned all the stuff I should have, back then!  Thanks for another
reminder about a command line tool I had forgotten about!

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