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[NMLUG] Further advantage of GHOST
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 11:09:01AM -0700, Steve Browne wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:52:28 -0700, you wrote:
>
> >Would someone clarify for me what an "advamtage" is?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >jody
>
> The further advaNtage of Ghost is that it can resize partitiions and
> defrag filesystems as well as clone data, directly from one hardware
> device to another. Considering that the typical Linux installation has
> four partitions (including swap), this is 3 functions x 4 = 12 steps
> in one automated utility. No comparable native Linux utility (yet)
> exists to do this.
Using tar or any other utility that doesn't do a binary image like dd will
implicitly defrag your disk during the move.
>
> Steve
> Stephen B. Browne
> sbrowne@ix.netcom.com
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