On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 21:00:26 -0600, Jeff Vian <jvian10(a)charter.net> wrote:
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 20:30 -0600, Jonathan Berry wrote:
> Lastly, if you are trying to use Ghost, then you actually may not be
> able to go from a 160 GB disk to a 36 GB disk. Ghost, as far as I
> know, creates an image of the disk, which is a direct binary copy.
This explanation of ghost is not quite correct.
dd would create an exact binary copy, byte for byte and can only be used
to copy to a drive/partition of the same size or larger. It also would
have issues with wanting to resize partitions.
Ghost, OTOH creates a copy of the *_data only_*, and stores the
partition size/type information as well.
Thus, you, in fact, may not be able to go from a 160gb disk to a 36gb
disk, but that would be due to space occupied by the data and not by
virtue of the original drive/partition size.
When you use Ghost to create and restore the image it will tell you both
the partition size and the data size so you know what your choices are.
Partition size is adjustable, data size is not.
Ahh, thanks for the correction. Remind me not to try to explain
things I have no experience with or knowlege of : ). I assumed an
"image" was just that, similar to an iso image.
Jonathan