[KLUG Members] Harddrive Imaging

Richard Zimmerman members@kalamazoolinux.org
Sat, 18 Jan 2003 21:50:07 -0500


On 18 Jan 2003 15:22:50 -0500
Bruce Smith <bruce@armintl.com> wrote:

> > Does anyone know of any open source harddisk imaging software.
> What kind of filesystems do you wish to "image".
> 
> If you want to copy Linux partitions, it can be done with the 
> standard tools that come with any distribution.

   Simple enough:

    dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb

    I use this for making images of floppies...

    dd if/dev/fd0 of=<file>

   then

   dd if=<file> of=/dev/fd0

   Works like a charm...

   Goose