[plug] Re: disk imaging a la ghost

[Trevor Phillips]

Mike Holland wrote:
> 
> Hi Chris,
> glad to hear it supports EXT2, but are you sure its file system
> independant? If so, how can this be possible? Wouldnt it need to change
> all the cylindar/sector numbers etc inside the filesystem?
 
I think I tried this a while ago, and while it could backup/restore EXT2, it
couldn't resize it. Or more to the point, putting on a different sized
partition, it was still only formatted for the old size.
Hmmm, or I could be thinking of Partition Magic resizing. ^_^;; (Similar
issues involved either way...)

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