Can I have a little help making an image via dd, and then compressing it?
I want to save 'checkpoints' of my build process, so that when I have to
go back, I do not have to go all the way back to the base image.
I have built my basic image (I will be updating my howto, found a few
bugs), and fdisk reports:
Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034124288 bytes, 234441649 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk label type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x0000c89d
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 2048 1026047 512000 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 1026048 2074623 524288 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 2074624 6268927 2097152 83 Linux
Obviously, I do not want to dd the whole 120GB, as I am still only using
4GB, though I will probably have to enlarge sda3 a bit to hold all the
software I need. I did this a couple years back, but can't find my
notes. :(
thanks