New drive

[Scott Mertens]

On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 11:02 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Scott Mertens wrote:
> > I have just bought a new SATA HD and installed with the DOS software
> > included with it.  It was formatted as FAT32, I think I will use as a
> > backup for this linux box.  My intention is to boot into a Ghost CD and
> > image drive to new Drive.
> > 
> > So question is is it OK to be formatted to FAT32 to copy an ex3 image
> > file to it.  Or should I mount it in Linux, format it as a ext3 and then
> > boot to Ghost and copy the image file to it?
> 
> Well, if you're actually using Ghost (Norton Ghost), it's irrelevant
> what the target drive is formatted as, since Ghost will overwrite it
> Ghost does a block-for-block copy, roughly equivalent to a Linux
> "dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=512"

	I am considering using Norton Ghost 9 (Latest) I think.  However if
Linux can do the same thing with a command similar to what you state
below, it may be better to create a script that will do that on a
nightly basis in Linux.