[Lunar-commits] CVS: moonbase/filesys/partimage BUILD, NONE, 1.1 DEPENDS, NONE, 1.1 DETAILS, NONE, 1.1

[Auke Kok]

Update of /var/cvs/lunar/moonbase/filesys/partimage
In directory dbguin.lunar-linux.org:/tmp/cvs-serv11807/partimage

Added Files:
	BUILD DEPENDS DETAILS 
Log Message:
A partition imaging and cloning too with compression support etc etc. very nice.


--- NEW FILE: BUILD ---
(

  ./autogen.sh &&
  ln -s /usr/share/automake/mkinstalldirs . &&
  default_build

) > $C_FIFO 2>&1

--- NEW FILE: DEPENDS ---
depends newt &&
depends openssl

--- NEW FILE: DETAILS ---
          MODULE=partimage
         VERSION=0.6.4
          SOURCE=$MODULE-$VERSION.tar.bz2
      SOURCE_URL=$SFORGE_URL/$MODULE/$SOURCE
      SOURCE_VFY=md5:ee56df4a6be1f78f53dc48454655aa8a
SOURCE_DIRECTORY=$BUILD_DIRECTORY/$MODULE-$VERSION
        WEB_SITE=http://www.partimage.org/
         ENTERED=20040226
         UPDATED=20040226
           SHORT="Create smaller images of entire partitions"
cat << EOF
Partition Image is a Linux/UNIX utility which saves partitions in many
formats (see below) to an image file. The image file can be compressed
in the GZIP/BZIP2 formats to save disk space, and split into multiple
files to be copied on removable floppies (ZIP for example), ... Partitions
can be saved across the network since version 0.6.0.

Partition Image will only copy data from the used portions of the partition.
For speed and efficiency, free blocks are not written to the image file.
This is unlike the 'dd' command, which also copies empty blocks. Partition
Image also works for large, very full partitions. For example, a full 1 GB
partition can be compressed with gzip down to 400MB.

This is very useful to save partitions to an image in some cases:

* First you can restore your linux partition if there is a problem (virus,
file system errors, manipulation error) . When you have a problem, you just
have to restore the partition, and after 10 minutes, you have the original
partition. You can write the image to a CD-R if you don't want the image
to use hard-disk space.

* This utility can be used to install many identical PCs. For example, if
you buy 50 PCs, with the same hardware, and you want to install the same
linux systems on all 50 PCs, you will save a lot of time. Indeed, you just
have to install on the first PC and create an image from it. For the 49
others, you can use the image file and Partition Image's restore function.
EOF