[ale] dd for 'ghosting' ?

hirsch at zapmedia.com hirsch at zapmedia.com
Thu Jun 15 08:55:27 EDT 2000


tewkewl at mindspring.com writes:

 > 
 > desired result: Be able to re-image a local fat32 partition from an
 > image of that partition stored on a linux partition.  

How exact does the image have to be?  Does it need to be a bit for bit
and sector for sector perfect dup, or do you just want all the files.

I find that cp -a works really well for ext2 partitions.  I don't know
if there are any attributes of vfat that are not used by NFS.

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