Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Great Article on Linux dd command

Author: AwesomeMachine @ LinuxQuestions.org

original link

I followed the instructions to create an image for my windows drive. It's killing me to reinstall xp.

creating backup image
dd if=/dev/hda1 | bzip2 > /home/winxp.image.bz2
restoring image
dd if=/home/winxp.image.bz2 | bunzip2 | dd of=/dev/hda1

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