[oclug] Imaging a Drive

[bbarnett at l8r.net]

On 24-Jan-2001 Kevin Everets wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 03:10:20PM -0500, Charles Sutton wrote:
> 
>> Presently I have an older IDE drive.  Has anyone had any luck using
>> software like Drive Image or Ghost on Linux partitions.   The problem is
>> that I will need to expand the partitions once the transfer is done.
>> Can anyone offer some suggestions.
> 
> I've successfully used Ghost on Linux partitions, and have seen
> success with Drive Image. What I would recommend, though, is to use
> neither. You can use a simple tar command to include everything that
> you'd need on the new drive (and possibly even use a cp command
> instead). Some fun options that you'll want to use are -p, -s,
> --same-owner, and -P. Check out the info pages on tar, and use the
> power available to you.
> 
> Kevin.
> 
> PS. If the power is unobvious and you've rtfm, then feel free to ask
> more questions.


One thing Kevin,

I was doing a hard drive upgrade about a year ago, and I read the "hard drive
upgrade mini howto".  The author claims that tar can cause problems, but I
couldn't see how.  I often use it to back up entire portions of hard drives,
and can see no problem with using it to do a whole hard drive.

The author listed various ways of doing the backup using cp, and used to have
the tar command listed, but removed it because of suggestions from people that
found a problem with it.  Any idea wtf?!  The author doesn't go into specifics.



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