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). -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu