Transferring disks with partimage

[Karl F. Larsen]

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Siggy Brentrup wrote:
> 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:
>>>>>
>>>>> 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?
> 
> 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
> 
	I don't know. I just read man dd and it said read info dd which was
identical to man dd. They show no indication of how you use dd over the
Internet. I will now Google and see if it finds anything.

	I'm sure pissed at Ubuntu because they do not provide the full
information when you use info. Fedora sure did!


73 Karl


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