[PLUG] Knoppix command line disk ghosting

Sean Whitney sean.whitney at gmail.com
Wed Jan 12 03:46:24 UTC 2005


I'm trying to remember what is the file size limit for ext2 partitions?

Sean
> 
> I had such great success I thought I'd image my wifes system.   I use
> the same procedure, but it fails to create a tidy image.  She is using
> 2Gb on a 10Gb drive.  But when I try the backup procedure described
> above, the image file gets up to about 4.6Gb before I abort the imaging.
> I found this very strange.  So I tried doing a disk defrag, and then
> doing the whole imaging procedure including zeroing unused blocks.
> Still a no go.   Anyone have any idea what might be going wrong?
> 
> Chris
> 
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