From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EVIuX-000382-Kh for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:20:01 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EVIuU-0002x6-H6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:19:59 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EVIuU-0002wV-9I for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:19:58 -0400 Received: from [128.8.10.163] (helo=po1.wam.umd.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EVIuU-0006af-AF for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:19:58 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:18:51 -0400 From: "Jim C. Brown" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Can I Create an Image From an Existing Windows Drive? Message-ID: <20051028011851.GA17269@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> References: <43616850.1080607@telesoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43616850.1080607@telesoft.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Scott Dudley Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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.