Transferring disks with partimage

[Siggy Brentrup]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 08:38 -0600, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
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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:
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> >>> dd if=/dev/sda1 |ssh user at destination.pc "dd of=/dev/sdb1 bs=4028
> >>> conv=notrunc"
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> >> 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?

Well enough I guess, ssh has no business with partitions whatsoever.
It's only job is to run the dd command on the remote machine.

I apologize for assuming you knew.

Regs
  Siggy
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