backup windows partition (fat)

[Ken Moffat]

Collins Richey wrote:

>On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 06:48:16 -0800 Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com> wrote:
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>>Mike Reinehr wrote:
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>>>Rather than purchase commercial software, why not just use tar, cp, dd, or 
>>>partimage? 
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>>Partimage will back up to a file, and restore a partition. Don't know 
>>about 'fat' partition support. I assume it's in there.
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>>http://www.sysresccd.org/systools.en.php
>>looks like a nice set of tools that might help.
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>Thanks, partimage is the answer!
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>I was able to run partimage to save the win98 partition, swap out the drive,
>reboot and fdisk, then restore the image to the new drive.  win98 comes up just
>fine.
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>Unfortunately, after all is said and done, I only gained 2 gig!  My spare
>drive wasn't as large as I remembered <groan>.  Oh well, I'm sure I'll be doing
>this again when I have some spare change for a new drive.
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>Thanks for the help.
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With Partimage you might need to resize the filesystem to get the full 
usage. I seem to remember that if the partition you are restoring to is 
bigger than the original, you will just use the needed amount. Not sure 
about that....

-- 
Ken