[PLUG] Damned Small USB or better?

drew wymore drew.wymore at gmail.com
Fri May 29 08:55:25 UTC 2009


On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 1:29 AM, drew wymore <drew.wymore at gmail.com> wrote:

> There is a free ghost based tool floating around based on netbsd. It's
> been years since I used it though. I'll see if I can find the link.
>
> On 5/29/09, chris (fool) mccraw <gently at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 00:23, Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm that jerk who questions your methods instead of answering your
> question.
> >
> >>  D.S.Linux runs dd to clone the main hard
> >> drive to an identical hard drive in an external SATA cradle, then
> >> shuts down.
> >
> > dd is hardly the fastest way to copy data.  i see what you're going
> > for, though--obviously rsync or similar "don't copy already-same
> > areas" tool won't necessarily create a bootable copy of windows.  i
> > didn't find any tools like dd+xdelta out there but there must be a
> > more efficient tool...does something like ghost (non free, but if
> > you're dealing with windows anyway...) do that?  i can't imagine that
> > 95% of the disk changes each usage, so it seems like an area of this
> > process rich for optimization.  i wonder if you have already optimized
> > partition size down to the bare minimum and just dd that partition?
> > seems like optimizing boot time when it must be such a tiny part of
> > the time taken to make the copy is ignoring amdahl's argument that one
> > should optimize the slowest thing first rather than the easiest...
> >
> > sorry i don't have an actual answer for you :(
> >
> > luck++;
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Keith, while it's floppy or CD based this might be worth investigating.

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