[plug] Re: disk imaging a la ghost

Chris Cornish linuxcw at yahoo.com.au
Wed Sep 1 17:24:45 WST 1999


Mike i dontactually know much about the tech side of howghost works but
the doc's i have read basicaly say it is o/s independent and disk size
independent ie can resize partions to suit and alow you to customise
partions . And it has proven it's self so i give it the thumbs up. :)

--- Mike Holland <myk at golden.wattle.id.au> wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Chris Cornish wrote:
> 
> > Ghost will actually do the same with linux's EXT2
> filesystem as it will
> > with any file system. This is becouse it is a file
> system independant
> 
> 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?
> 
> A web page for Ghost is:
> http://www.symantec.com/region/reg_eu/product/ghost/
> and i see they do a "try before you buy".
> 
> Mike Holland <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>           
> Perth, Australia.
>                           --==--
> 	I had no shoes and I pitied myself.  Then I met a
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> 	                -- Dave Barry
> 
> 

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