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Hi Marton, |
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on Friday, 2005-09-02 at 12:40:06, you wrote: |
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> Maybe you could use 'dd if=/dev/hdx of=/path/to/destination/file' or |
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> something similar though you have to choose another partition for the image. |
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Don't do that. It will appear to work but usually introduces subtle |
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inconsistencies in the FS structure that fsck may or may not catch, |
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especially when there's constant FS activity like on a mail server. This |
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is only safe for partitions that are mounted read-only. |
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I haven't done anything like this, and I'd think it's not really |
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necessary when you have several machines available anyway (each usually |
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with several partitions, unlike Windows where that's a necessary |
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feature) but I'd suggest dump(1). dump can exclude inodes, so something |
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like |
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touch dumpfile |
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dump -f- -e$(ls -i dumpfile | sed 's/ [[:alpha:]]\+//') /some/mount/point |
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should do roughly what you want. If you use EXT[23] FS that is... |
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regards |
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Matthias |
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