Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 18, 2005 02:45 AM
I came up with a good solution for not having nc+dd copy empty disk space. Use DD on the live machine to fill up unallocated space with zeros, and then pipe the copy through gzip with --fast. So
live machine$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/DELETEME live machine$ rm<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/DELETEME [repeat per partition]
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 18, 2005 02:45 AMlive machine$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/DELETEME
live machine$ rm<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/DELETEME
[repeat per partition]
then,
knoppix# dd if=/dev/hda | gzip --fast | nc<nobr> <wbr></nobr>...
It takes a while, but it's good for making compressed disk images.
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