Re: copying a disk image to restore on linux

[Steve Suehring <sec () braingia org>]

Might want to look at partimage.  Also Norton Ghost does a good job at it, 
though not free.  Linux Magazine just had an article on this subject in a 
recent issue.

Steve

On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 03:42:03PM +0530, phani () myrealbox com wrote:
> hi all,
>    I would like to know if there are any utilities on linux (preferably freeware) which can create a complete image 
> of the hard-drive. I know dd exists, but that would create the image of the entire drive. If the drive was (say) 40 
> GB and the free space is 20 GB then that would be a waste of space. Is there a tool which would let me create the 
> image of the used space on the drive ?
>
> thank you
> gangadhar