backup windows partition (fat)

[Collins Richey]

On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 17:28:28 -0800 Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com> wrote:

> Collins Richey wrote:
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> >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!
> >
> >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.
> >
> >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.
> >
> >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....
> 

Yeah.  Next time I do this I need to defrag the disk, then use parted to shrink
it, since I have a fair amount of unused space that I won't ever use in the
win98 partition.

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Collins Richey - Denver Area
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