Transferring disks with partimage

[Colin Law]

2009/7/14 Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com>:
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> Siggy Brentrup wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 08:13 -0600, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>>> Fred Roller wrote:
>>>> DD will work over the network.  Ensuring neither drive is mounted, the
>>>> command would look something like this:
>>>>
>>>> dd if=/dev/sda1 |ssh user at destination.pc "dd of=/dev/sdb1 bs=4028
>>>> conv=notrunc"
>>
>>> How does ssh work to a partition that is not mounted? I do not think
>>> so....
>>
>> Karl, please stop confusing newbies with your unfounded comments.
>>
>> Never try dd with a mounted partition.
>>
>> Stumped
>>   Siggy
>>
>        Siggy I see you don't read English well. My point is, how do you ssh to
> an un-mounted partition?
>

It is not ssh'ing to an un-mounted partition, it is using ssh to run
dd remotely (or at least I think that is it, though I do not hesitate
to admit that my understanding of how ssh works is underwhelming).  It
is dd that is accessing the unmounted partition.

Colin