Retro-Starr Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 I spent some time making ubuntu my own all the way down from the Alt. install, now I would like to make an iso of the way I made things so I could quickly get back to it in case I fuck something up (like always). I tested Reconstructor, but it seems to want me to customize WITHIN the app & it didn't make the iso for some reason...Do I need Clonezilla or something? I know about "dd" but that would do the entire HDD which is...kinda big...Any help is much appreciated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uberprinnyakatux Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 http://clonezilla.org/ Clonezilla is a good choice. It can copy the entire disk or go block by block and copy only the used ones. I havn't used it in forever so I don't remember if it does compression too or not. Which would get the sizes down also. Hope that helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 http://www.linuxweblog.com/blogs/sandip/20...-drive-using-dd dd, the less disk-hungry way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro-Starr Posted August 15, 2009 Author Share Posted August 15, 2009 So this last code zeros the empty space? # dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/delete.me bs=8M; rm delete.me Doing the "dd" method means only restoring for my computer? The extention ".img" is used for usb installers, so there could be a way to get an iso from that or just convert the usb into an iso? The Clonezilla seems cool, would like to do this without burning a new cd. Sorry if I'm asking too much, just really get this copy/backup accomplished. Thanks for the help guys! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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