Janina, I am not sure that that would work well for what he wants to do. I would not trust dd to make an image of a file system for the purpose of transporting it to another computer which may have a different hard disk and a Linux partition of a different size. Tar should work well, however, so long as you pass it parameters to exclude anything that you do not want copied (ie, /proc). -- Michael Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.home.dhs.org -- On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Janina Sajka wrote: > Imaging in linux is the easiest imaging you will ever do. > > Use the dd command partition by partition as follows: > k