[TriLUG] Knoppix revisited...again

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 10:08, Roy Vestal wrote:
> Here's a linux alternative I just thought of.  Since you are using Knoppix,
> I'm assuming you have network connectivity. If so, open a terminal, mount a
> share on your network and use dd to copy the partition you want to save into
> an image file. For example: dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/mount/point/filename.img .
> Then you can mount the image any linux machine you wish and copy/write/move
> the data: mount -o loop /path/to/filename.img /mount/point.
> 
> You could use lnx-bbc (linux bootable business card) from lnx-bbc.org as
> well as your favorite distro's rescue schema to do this if you didn't want
> to use Knoppix.
> 
> Hope this is clear as mud.
> 
> HTH

I've done this before (when upgrading laptop harddrives) and it
works well with one caveat.  Sometimes linux filesystems may have
a maximum 2GB file size limit (at least it did when I tried it 3 years
ago).  In that case, you need to use the "count" and "skip" options
to copy off the first 2 GB then then next 2GB, etc... until you
get the entire partition.  Don't worry about splitting it up.
When you put it back later, as long as you do it the same way
you did when you pulled it off, all will be fine.

Cheers,
Tanner
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