You're correct, Mike. dd will write an exact byte by byte image. He was asking about Ghost, and I think this would be the analog to Ghost. tar is also an excellent choice, however. On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Mike Gorse wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org