From: "Jim C. Brown" <jma5@umd.edu>
To: Scott Dudley <scott@telesoft.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Can I Create an Image From an Existing Windows Drive?
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:18:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051028011851.GA17269@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43616850.1080607@telesoft.com>
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 04:52:48PM -0700, Scott Dudley wrote:
>
> Can I, in Linux, create a disk image from a mounted Windows disk? This
> would save installation from scratch and migrating all
> software/configuration.
>
> Thanks.
>
It is a bad idea if a filesystem on the disk is mounted, as u might be reading
stuff while the disk is being written to. But if you can make sure that the disk
cache has been flushed and that nothing is trying to write at that moment, dd
works fine.
Of course, this will not save you any headaches during installation.
--
Infinite complexity begets infinite beauty.
Infinite precision begets infinite perfection.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-28 1:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-27 23:52 [Qemu-devel] Can I Create an Image From an Existing Windows Drive? Scott Dudley
2005-10-28 0:09 ` Joe Menola
2005-10-28 1:18 ` Jim C. Brown [this message]
2005-10-28 8:23 ` Ozan Türkyılmaz
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20051028011851.GA17269@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org \
--to=jma5@umd.edu \
--cc=qemu-devel@nongnu.org \
--cc=scott@telesoft.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.