[CentOS] A questiong about replacing my failing drive

[Lamar Owen]

On Sunday 12 June 2005 16:47, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 16:57 -0300, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
> > I know. My point is that ghost is much faster than those other options
> > for wholedisk copies. At least, the ones I tried. And, again, comparing
> > to that ghost edition I used on that computer manufacturing place.
>
> Okay, I'll see you there on Ghost, Drive Copy/Image, etc...
>
> They _will_ typically be faster because of the generic sector-by-sector
> copy.  But I still trust the filesystem tools more.

Ghost, at least Symantec Ghost 8.0, does not do a generic sector by sector 
copy on an ext2/3 filesystem, it copies file by file, even when cloning whole 
disks (so that it doesn't copy blank space).
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