[CentOS] imaging a drive with dd
Styma, Robert (Nokia - US)
robert.styma at nokia.com
Fri Mar 3 17:31:00 UTC 2017
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.
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