On 03/03/2017 12:31 PM, Styma, Robert (Nokia - US) wrote: > > On 3/3/2017 5:34 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> Well, I only wanted to copy the used part of the drive which I try to >> keep small so I can still copy the image to an mSD card if I wish. So >> I have to supply the amount of the drive to copy. The bs=512 went >> fast enough, but then I was only copying 3.2GB. >> >> thanks for the help. > Have you considered looking at Clonezilla? It does a nice job of imaging a disk and only saves the used part. It creates an image which can be restored and is bootable. Yes, I looked at it a couple years ago, and I may well again as a disaster recovery tool. It takes more to set up than a dd of the drive (and xzcat compression for storage). I *DO* want a recovery strategy in place here. thanks