On 2004-08-03 (Tuesday) 22:44, Mick Mearns wrote:
> Hello list;
> I would like to know how to zip/bzip2/tar.gz etc my Windows XP
> partition.
>
> I rarely use XP, when I last did - I realized what a PITA it was to
> get current.
> (fdisk/format/w98se/upgrade to XP/load drivers/load SP1/patch/load
> progs)
>
> So I would like to make an iso (while I still have space), and burn it
> to DVD.
>
> I know that Linux file permissions are not possible on vfat, but how do
> I save the vfat file attributes? hid/sys/archive
>
> Is there a script out there to do this?
>
> Thanks
> Mick M.
>
> =====
> Dogs have Masters - Siamese Cats have Staff!
I do not know such, but I can give you an idea: mount your fat partition,
create a file with zeroes to take all the free space on that it, umount the
partition and compress and backup the whole partition. I assume you have your
XP on /dev/hda2, so:
[root@fedora ~]# mkdir /mnt/c
[root@fedora ~]# mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/c
[root@fedora ~]# cd /mnt/c
[root@fedora /mnt/c]# cat /dev/zero > ZEROFILE
cat: write error: No space left on device
[root@fedora /mnt/c]# rm -f ZEROFILE
[root@fedora /mnt/c]# cd
[root@fedora ~]# umount /mnt/c
[root@fedora ~]# sync
[root@fedora ~]# dd if=/dev/hda2 | bzip2 -vv -9 > /mnt/home/hda1.bz2
# ( or 'dd if=/dev/hda2 | gzip -9 > hda1.gz' )
Then backup /mnt/home/hda1.bz2 where you want. You need the 'ZEROFILE'
in order to full the unused partition space with zeroes, which will be
compressed very much (128MB zeroes | bzip2 -9 > 112 bytes). When you need
to restore your XP just do 'bzcat hda1.gz > /dev/hda2'. All files and
permissions (this trick can be done a bit harder with any fs) will be 1:1.
!!! WARNING !!!
1. You should restore to the same partition (size).
2. Any mistake like /dev/hda1 instead of /dev/hda2 will totally destroy
/dev/hda1.
3. This does not take care of the MBR. You might need to recover
it with the XP's rescue mode -> manual -> restore boot sector.
!!! WARNING !!!
Hope this helps :)
PS: I used such trick to 'clone' some machines with same hardware and
disks.
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Regards,
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