Partimage.

Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Partimage.
started by: Jon T

Posted by Jon T on Nov. 08 2005,22:13

Greetings, would there be any possibility of including Partimage in the base image?, it's just around 1mb compressed.. Would this ruin your 50mb testimonial?

Thanks for reading!
Jon.

Posted by ke4nt1 on Nov. 08 2005,22:19

a LOT can be added into DSL with 1MB of space..

Did you try using the parted app in the mydsl area?

If you are internet conected,
open a userdsl shell, and type..

mydsl-load parted.dsl apps

See if that will do for working on those drive spaces.

partimage.dsl anyone ??

73
ke4nt

Posted by WDef on Nov. 09 2005,15:52

If it helps, you can *exactly* replicate a partition, including a boot sector, with dd:

dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=64M

Both partitions need to be umounted at the time and hdb must be at least the same size as hda.

If you're not trying to move a boot sector you could use tar:

cd /mnt/hda; tar cf - . | (cd /mnt/hdb; tar xf -)

(don't rely on eg cp -a ).

OTOH maybe using a specialised tool is a good idea.

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on Nov. 09 2005,16:02

see this thread.

< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....l=bzip2 >

-J.P.