[GLLUG] Hard Disk Imaging

Clay Dowling clay at lazarusid.com
Thu Dec 21 13:55:45 EST 2006


Adam McDougall said:

> When I did something similar, I had a small (2G) install on the first
> partition
> and installed FreeBSD on the second partition consuming the rest of the
> disk.
> When I wanted to re-image, I just booted into FreeBSD and used dd to
> replace
> the first partition, which I had made an image from using dd when I was
> satisfied
> with its initial pristine state.  I did this using one fast HD, but

This might be an option worth considering.  I have a lot more space on the
HD than I need for my app, so a UNIX partition is entirely possible.

Clay
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