lastlog is huge

[Jonathan Berry]

On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 21:00:26 -0600, Jeff Vian <jvian10 at charter.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 20:30 -0600, Jonathan Berry wrote:
> > Lastly, if you are trying to use Ghost, then you actually may not be
> > able to go from a 160 GB disk to a 36 GB disk.  Ghost, as far as I
> > know, creates an image of the disk, which is a direct binary copy.
> 
> This explanation of ghost is not quite correct.
> 
> dd would create an exact binary copy, byte for byte and can only be used
> to copy to a drive/partition of the same size or larger.  It also would
> have issues with wanting to resize partitions.
> 
> Ghost, OTOH creates a copy of the *_data only_*, and stores the
> partition size/type information as well.
> 
> Thus, you, in fact, may not be able to go from a 160gb disk to a 36gb
> disk, but that would be due to space occupied by the data and not by
> virtue of the original drive/partition size.
> When you use Ghost to create and restore the image it will tell you both
> the partition size and the data size so you know what your choices are.
> Partition size is adjustable, data size is not.

Ahh, thanks for the correction.  Remind me not to try to explain
things I have no experience with or knowlege of : ).  I assumed an
"image" was just that, similar to an iso image.

Jonathan