Comments on: [selfnote] Cloning/Backing up NTFS systems

By: ressu

ressu — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:20:06 +0000

And of course, if you’ve been following along for a week or two, you know
that this (BING!) is a Useless Use of Cat!

Rememeber, nearly all cases where you have:

cat file | some_command and its args …

you can rewrite it as:

and in some cases, such as this one, you can move the filename
to the arglist as in:

some_command and its args … file

http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html
… Sorry, couldn't resist =)

By: Carsten

Carsten — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:28:56 +0000

That’s nice, but has anyone solved the problem, what happens when the image is restored onto a almost similar machine with slightly different partitioning? After doing that, the system residing on NTFS won’t start anymore without manual intervention.

By: Angel Ortega

Angel Ortega — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 05:43:45 +0000

Thank you very much!