Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.help
Date: 2001-07-18 09:47:06 PST

> Has anyone used Ghost or Disk Image Pro to clone the hard disk on a linux
> system?

Tried both products recently and Disk Image Pro is currently unable to copy Linux Swap - it bombs out with a program error - this is acknowledged on their website and they are intending a fix for it at some point….

However, used Norton Ghost and this worked absolutely fine for our Linux Mandrake 7.0 machine.

One thing we did notice is too make sure your disk-size is being picked up correctly in the BIOS , otherwise ghost won't get the partitions sizes right (understandably) - for instance it made a 2G disk look like a 3G disk.

Also - if this is a system disk, there is an option I think you need to check under the OPTIONS menu in Ghost, which tells it this I believe.

John