Transferring disks with partimage

[Joep L. Blom]

Fred Roller wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 17:08 +0200, Joep L. Blom wrote:
>> However that doesn't solve my wish to concatenate the smaller
>> partitions.
>> I'm still looking for a way to do that with a minimal of effort (!).
>> Joep
>>
> 
> Well, if you want to experiment.
> 
> dd dev -> .iso each of the smaller part.
> make .iso writable.
> combine
> dd .iso -> dev one part
> 
> In theory, this should work.
> 
> dd is also basically xcopy, dd if=file of=file -> into new part.
> 
> At this point, if you are just moving data rsync, or others, may be your
> best bet.
> 
Fred,
I'm a little slow in replying to your suggestion but you mentioned 
combine (as a command??) ot do you mean to use cat to concatenate 2 
files. I don't know it that works with binary files
Second question: why give it the extension .iso? or is it in reality a 
.iso file you can mount e.g as a loop device.
Joep