New HP Laptop with Recovery partition

[C M Reinehr]

Bruce,

On Friday 12 January 2007 17:38, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Friday 12 January 2007 18:06, Net Llama! wrote:
> > > Been worth it's weight in gold.
> >
> > How is that different than dd ?
>
> 1) Isn't dd an 'exact' copy of a partition w/o compression?  I would assume
> it would have to be rewritten back to an exact copy (not nec. the same size
> partition, maybe larger and then you'd have to run a util to increase the
> FS size)

	Yes.

> 2) TrueImage will essentially write back to any partition that will hold
> the data...  Even change file systems if you want.  It is a data copy, not
> a sector copy.
>
> 3) You can restore  files or directories.... out of a full partition image.
> Can't do that with dd I think.
>
> Probably more but those are enough for me.

	Partimage probably would be the closest thing to TrueImage:

Partition Image is a partition imaging utility. It has support for the 
following file systems:

 * Ext2/3, the linux standard
 * Reiser3, a journalised and powerful file system
 * FAT16/32, DOS and Windows file systems
 * HPFS, IBM OS/2 file system
 * JFS, journalised file system, from IBM, used on AIX
 * XFS, another journalised and efficient file system, from sgi, used on Irix
 * UFS (beta), Unix file system
 * HFS (beta), MacOS File system
 * NTFS (experimental), Windows NT, 2000 and XP

Only used blocks are copied and stored into an image file. The image file can 
be compressed in the GZIP/BZIP2 formats to save disk space, and split into 
multiple files to be copied onto removable media (ZIP for example), burned on 
a CD-R, etc.

Cheers!

cmr

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