Re: [ILUG] Ghost (WAS: networking a laptop)

From: Liam Bedford (lbedford at domain lbedford.org)
Date: Tue 19 Jun 2001 - 12:17:31 IST


On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 12:12:16PM +0100, Jerry Walsh came forth with:
> Interesting I always thought it was a raw disk image type tool like dd...
> except for the fact that it showed the filenames/directories it was
> copying during the create disk image progress ;) which probably would make
> sense that it does indeed copy individual files... hrm
> does it ONLY copy files then? What about the MBR etc.?
>
>
I assume it's like powerquest Drive Image..

it understands the partition format, so it can ignore blank space,
and recreate it easily enough.

If it doesn't understand it (ext2 for example, or UFS) it'll just
do a byte by byte copy..

L.

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