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#1 User is offline   danleff 

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Posted 15 October 2004 - 12:29 PM

I just tried a neat application called Ghost for Linux on one of my test boxes.

Essentially, I had a 20 gig hard drive and wanted to install a 40 gig which I took out of my wife's box (yes, I got her a larger hard drive). This utility allows you to clone data bit for bit to another drive, which is useful for upgrading the ol' hard drive. It is very similar to the windows/dos based Ghost application by Symantec.

I downloaded the boot iso image, which is Linux based and used it to clone the new 40 gig drive. Worked great! I am now posting from the cloned drive in Linspire.

The link to G4L is located here.

Philipp previously posted a news story on another project called G4U and apparently there is some controversy over who has rights for each program, or who violated who's source code.

Anyway, a thought on another tool in the linux arsenal.
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#2 User is offline   egorgry 

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Posted 15 October 2004 - 02:54 PM

very cool. I'd love to give this a try when I upgrade my HD. Good find Danleff.
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#3 User is offline   SoulNothing 

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Posted 15 October 2004 - 02:59 PM

totally agree will make transfers much easier i could used this from when i transfer from a 15 gig to a 160 gig

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