Transferring disks with partimage

[NoOp]

On 07/14/2009 02:25 PM, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
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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
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>>> 	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.

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