Ahh..yes..I don't see why you couldn't just do it with SI, as long as
the fs you wanted to muck with weren't mounted. :)
On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 17:40, Derek Glidden wrote:
> We use systemimager here all day long. It's bloody wonderful! I'm
> happy to hear you're getting XFS support in - I can stop mucking about
> with getting it to work now. :)
>
> I was assuming though that he wanted to "image" a live system directly
> to a backup disk, which I didn't think either of those tools would
> handle directly.
>
> On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 18:06, Austin Gonyou wrote:
> > System Imager or System Congifurator may eventually support this. I've
> > made patches for SI to enable XFS support. I use it often. Please see
> > freshmeat for the link.
> >
> > On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 16:58, Derek Glidden wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 16:23, pac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Is there a tool that I can use to grab the partition table from
> > > > One disc and flash it on a Second disk? I didnt see anything like
> > > > that from gpart or partimage.
> > > >
> > > > I basically want to be able to automatically clone an entire
> disk,
> > > > with all of the data, but not by using 'dd' or ghost. Hopefully
> > > > something that is smart enough to forget all the empty zeros.
> > >
> > > sfdisk and rsync or dump/xfsdump.
> > >
> > > You could probably script it by looking at /etc/fstab or
> > > /proc/partitions or something, although disks with different
> geometries
> > > will catch you. If they're IDE, you run into situations where a lot
> of
> > > systems, even with identical disks, can ID the geometry differently
> > > depending on what controller they're plugged into and how the BIOS
> > > settings are configured.
> > >
> > > --
> > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> > > #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> > > $_='while(read+STDIN,$_,2048){$a=29;$b=73;$c=142;$t=255;@t=map
> > > {$_%16or$t^=$c^=($m=(11,10,116,100,11,122,20,100)[$_/16%8])&110;
> > > $t^=(72,@z=(64,72,$a^=12*($_%16-2?0:$m&17)),$b^=$_%64?12:0,@z)
> > > [$_%8]}(16..271);if((@a=unx"C*",$_)[20]&48){$h=5;$_=unxb24,join
> > > "",@b=map{xB8,unxb8,chr($_^$a[--$h+84])}@ARGV;s/...$/1$&/;$d=
> > > unxV,xb25,$_;$e=256|(ord$b[4])<<9|ord$b[3];$d=$d>>8^($f=$t&($d
> > > >>12^$d>>4^$d^$d/8))<<17,$e=$e>>8^($t&($g=($q=$e>>14&7^$e)^$q*
> > > 8^$q<<6))<<9,$_=$t[$_]^(($h>>=8)+=$f+(~$g&$t))for@a[128..$#a]}
> > > print+x"C*",@a}';s/x/pack+/g;eval
> > >
> > > usage: qrpff 153 2 8 105 225 < /mnt/dvd/VOB_FILENAME \
> > > | extract_mpeg2 | mpeg2dec -
> > >
> > > http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/
> > > http://www.eff.org/ http://www.anti-dmca.org/
> > --
> > Austin Gonyou
> > Systems Architect, CCNA
> > Coremetrics, Inc.
> > Phone: 512-698-7250
> > email: austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > "It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin
> it."
> > Latin Proverb
> --
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> $_='while(read+STDIN,$_,2048){$a=29;$b=73;$c=142;$t=255;@t=map
> {$_%16or$t^=$c^=($m=(11,10,116,100,11,122,20,100)[$_/16%8])&110;
> $t^=(72,@z=(64,72,$a^=12*($_%16-2?0:$m&17)),$b^=$_%64?12:0,@z)
> [$_%8]}(16..271);if((@a=unx"C*",$_)[20]&48){$h=5;$_=unxb24,join
> "",@b=map{xB8,unxb8,chr($_^$a[--$h+84])}@ARGV;s/...$/1$&/;$d=
> unxV,xb25,$_;$e=256|(ord$b[4])<<9|ord$b[3];$d=$d>>8^($f=$t&($d
> >>12^$d>>4^$d^$d/8))<<17,$e=$e>>8^($t&($g=($q=$e>>14&7^$e)^$q*
> 8^$q<<6))<<9,$_=$t[$_]^(($h>>=8)+=$f+(~$g&$t))for@a[128..$#a]}
> print+x"C*",@a}';s/x/pack+/g;eval
>
> usage: qrpff 153 2 8 105 225 < /mnt/dvd/VOB_FILENAME \
> | extract_mpeg2 | mpeg2dec -
>
> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/
> http://www.eff.org/ http://www.anti-dmca.org/
--
Austin Gonyou
Systems Architect, CCNA
Coremetrics, Inc.
Phone: 512-698-7250
email: austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it."
Latin Proverb
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