On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 14:27, Bo Peng wrote: > Hi, > > What is the best way to backup a whole disk? (Like ghost under > DOS/Windows?) Can I simply > dd -if /dev/hde -of /home/backup/backip.img > and dd it back when necessary? > > This, if feasible, is not at all efficient since empty spaces are also > copied. Is there any better way? I can not use tar/cp -r since I would > like to keep partition information as well. > > The whole story is that I need to backup a disk before I resize an ext3 > partition on it. I hope parted will do the job well. Any success story? > > Many thanks in advance. > search for mondo. people have posted here that it does wht you want I believe. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
