On 9 Mar 2005 at 10:10, Max L. Eidswick wrote: > > This is a resend of this earlier message ? I could not find it or any replies in the archives ¦ > > > > Hi, All ? I have FC3 on a removable disk in my ThinkPad a31p (a 60GB). I need to use that disk > for some other testing and do not want to lose my FC3 setup. I am sure it is not using more that > 15GB and I have an extra 20GB that I would like to use for FC3 instead. > > Is there any EASY way for me to backup my FC3 disk/partition and restore it on another disk? > The first disk is larger, but the target disk is large enough to handle the FC3 space used ¦ > > Thanks, > > Max L. Eidswick > > A couple of options that I know of. G4U or G4L can be used to make a backup of the drive/partition to an ftp server. They also have options to copy from disk to disk, if in the same machine without the ftp server. A couple of quick notes, both programs copy all sectors of the disk, so it makes a huge difference if you zero out the unused sectores before doing the backup. G4U uses gzip. I've got a modified version of the G4L that has the original gzip, and bzip plus lzop compression. (lzop in my configuration takes about 1/2 the time of gzip, and is about 15% larger, so it is a trade off). The updated iso images are on my college ftp site with a pdf if anyone is intersted. ftp://202.128.73.29 +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu Number of Seti Units Returned: 15,830 Processing time: 30 years, 118 days, 12 hours, 54 minutes (Total Hours: 265,645)
