Transferring disks with partimage
Karl F. Larsen
klarsen1 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 14 11:48:07 UTC 2009
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
Joep L. Blom wrote:
> Following my question of 07/12/09 I would like to know if anybody has
> experience with transferring partitions over the network to another system.
> As I wrote I want to transfer partitions (> 10) to another system on one
> disk. I found I can use partimage to make an imagefile and transfer it
> either directly or indirectly to the other system.
> However, I have the following questions:
> 1. When I restore the image do I need an unformatted partition?
> 2. Can I combine several partition images into one restored image?
> I hope somebody has experience with it. Googling I didn't found relevant
> information.
> Joep
>
I would use DD to transfer your partitions. I expect partimage uses DD.
It will look like this:
$ dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/dev/sdb2 bs=2048 conv=notrunc
This will quickly send everything in /dev/sda2 to sdb2 and it works fine.
73 Karl
- --
Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
Key ID = 3951B48D
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
iD8DBQFKXHB3NuSIOjlRtI0RAsZPAJ4qL0TAFo8c9myU3+jUoRbu0scpVwCdHquh
DK2Dbq4k65dm7eJJo8YEb4c=
=KNav
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
More information about the ubuntu-users
mailing list