On 7/14/06, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>> wrote: >/ />/ I am familiar with using dd to create a disk image. dd if=/dev/hda1 />/ of=myimge.img />/ />/ However, is there a way to capture the entire disk image into a file. / >Replacing /dev/hda1 in your dd line by /dev/hda used to work. >-- >Eduardo Grosclaude >Universidad Nacional del Comahue >Neuquen, Argentina Thanks, I'll try that... Any way to drop the size of the created image? Ex: disk is 100G and I no longer need all the extra space. perhaps only 20Gig image instead of the full 100Gig. Thanks, Jerry