Is it a good idea to use qcow2 format to have a backup image for whole disk with partition table?
I'm not sure that an image with partition table will be able to mount normally and in the same time it will be impossible to run the image in virtual machine because of mess with fstab/mtab / virtual hdd's UUID-s.
I need to clean up some HDD but I will need some of it's content later.
I'm looking at the differences between using a file versus a partition to store a virtual disk image in VM use. The common knowledge is that partition-based images are faster than file-based images because of a decreased overhead. It makes sense, but I've never seen any actual numbers.
My own testing bears out a different result.
I have created a custom bootable image(.iso) using Multi CD. This image contains Clonezilla,Ultimate Boot CD,Windows Recovery enviroment and much more. I checked whether the image was bootable or not and it worked fine. This image file is like my custom rescue disk. I want to create a separate partition with this image on it and adding a grub menu entry.
Hi all I've created a clonezilla image from 4 ntfs partitions all of that were 50Gb in size.Later i deleted those 4 partitions to create one bulk partition of size 200Gb.I did that job well using gparted.After i tried to restore that image in that 200Gb ntfs partition.but i can't do that.It returned with some errors.I'm sure image is good.I checked that image after creating.So,there's no problem w
I want to create an image of some directory tree that is writable directly to an USB drive, just like the images of many linux distributions.
I have my pc with dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04. I have a a partition of 62 GB on which I created a Virtual Hard Disk Image using VirtualBox from within Ubuntu and Installed Joli OS. After I uninstalled Joli os and uninstalled Virtual Machine, I still Can not recover the disk space that was occupied by the Virtual Disk Image though I am unable to find the Virtual Disk Image.
i want to partition raw disk image with those following commands
#creating the blank image
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=example.img bs=1M count=50
#write the partition table
$ parted example.img mktable msdos
#creating partition but not the file system
#creating fat32 primary partition 1 to 15 MB
$ parted example.img mkpart p fat32 1 15
#creating ext3 primary partition 16 to end
$ parted example.img mk
Hey there! Ok, here is basically a quick rundown of my situation:
Lets say I have two physical hard drives: drive 1 and drive 2. Drive one has two partitions, each with an OS on it. Lets say I make an image of sda2 (which has windows 7 on it) and save it for later. Not a full disk image, just a partition image.
Ok, so now I have a partition image of sda2 from hard drive #1.
How to mount compressed disk image?
Here is my situation: I have hard drive with (fresh) OS installation. I made compressed image of that disk to another disk.
How to make compressed disk image to file (on another disk):
sudo cat /dev/sdb | gzip > disk.img.gz (sdb is source)
If free space is zero-ed, compression is much better.
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