On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 21:00:26 -0600, Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 20:30 -0600, Jonathan Berry wrote: > > Lastly, if you are trying to use Ghost, then you actually may not be > > able to go from a 160 GB disk to a 36 GB disk. Ghost, as far as I > > know, creates an image of the disk, which is a direct binary copy. > > This explanation of ghost is not quite correct. > > dd would create an exact binary copy, byte for byte and can only be used > to copy to a drive/partition of the same size or larger. It also would > have issues with wanting to resize partitions. > > Ghost, OTOH creates a copy of the *_data only_*, and stores the > partition size/type information as well. > > Thus, you, in fact, may not be able to go from a 160gb disk to a 36gb > disk, but that would be due to space occupied by the data and not by > virtue of the original drive/partition size. > When you use Ghost to create and restore the image it will tell you both > the partition size and the data size so you know what your choices are. > Partition size is adjustable, data size is not. Ahh, thanks for the correction. Remind me not to try to explain things I have no experience with or knowlege of : ). I assumed an "image" was just that, similar to an iso image. Jonathan
