[nylug-talk] Disk imaging/cloning - sorry if someone asked this already

[Peter C. Norton]

On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 09:39:39AM -0400, Mark Halegua wrote:
> The benefit of PI is it will only copy the actual data on a partition, 
> whrereas dd will copy the whole partition, unused space and all, and doesn't 
> compress any of it.

You can pipe to gzip, but it can be a waste of time to have to read
all the unused space on the disk.

-Peter

-- 
The 5 year plan:
In five years we'll make up another plan.
Or just re-use this one.