ghosting a linux drive ??
 

are there any issues with ghosting linux drives -- i have all the versions of ghost that say they are capable of this

i have a 10gb i want to ghost to a 20gb --> i have /, /usr, /home & swap


has any1 got any input



thanx

goofy

http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/index.html

I found this GPL prog when looking for a similar thing. I haven't tried it yet, but the documentation and support are excellent, so I would imagine it would be something worth trying!

Please post your experience with it if you do decide to use it!

Re: ghosting a linux drive ??
 

Why not just use cpio in passthrough mode to make copies of the contents of those filesystems? For example, to copy an ext2 filesystem mounted on `/home' (assuming that partition 1 = /, 2 = /usr, 3 = /home) to a second disk that's been already been partitioned:

mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb3 /mnt # Mount the new /home
cd /home
find . -depth -print0 | cpio --null -pvd /mnt

(BTW, this is covered in the info pages for cpio under `Concept Index' -> `copying directory structures'.)

It's not Ghost but it's works. And it comes with the OS!

Worth a try.

you can try PartImage.. I have not tried this yet.. but it is on my list of things to try.

http://www.partimage.org/index.php3