[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [Qemu-devel] Can I Create an Image From an Existing Windows Drive?
|
From: |
Jim C. Brown |
|
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] Can I Create an Image From an Existing Windows Drive? |
|
Date: |
Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:18:51 -0400 |
|
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.4.2.1i |
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.