On 02/15/2012 08:21 AM, Chris Schanzle wrote:
> On 02/14/2012 08:20 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
>> Question: what do you think would be the easiest way to
>> clone the NTFS partition: "dd", "Clonzilla"? Your
>> thoughts appreciated.
>
> I've had good luck with partimage from the system rescue cd. Seemed
> simpler than clonezilla, at least it was to me some time back.
> Scriptable too. Per clonzilla's home page, Clonezilla uses Partclone
> (default) or Partimage to make backups.
>
> In my script, it boils down to:
>
> partimage --batch --compress=0 --nodesc --finish=3 --volume=0 save $part
> ${part##*/}-$today.partimg
>

Hi Chris,

Do you know if the above drops empty space from the image?

-T