Re: [Clonezilla-live] Create an image of the disk without rebooting the server

[G. M. <gma...@is...>]

Kristian Erik Hermansen ha scritto:
> On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:15:19 +0200,  "G. Massera" <gma...@is...> wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>> yes... I will try to clone a live machine... I looking for a way to
>> prevent writing on disk for a while... the time necessary to take an
>> image of the disk.
>> Somebody knows a way to enable a kind of write-protection on a linux
>> partition for a certain amount of time ???
>> Another way, could be to use the initrd and run the command for take the
>> image of the disk before the mount command... but at that time, the
>> network is not active... right ?!?!?
>>     
>
> Wouldn't merely a mount -o remount ro of the appropriate partitions
> work?  Then it's read-only until you finish cloning the disk, but the
> system is still live :-)  Good luck...
>   

Yeaahhh... I will try !! :-) Thank you.
Just a final question... How can I extract the program and the
command-line used for take the image of a partition ???
I need only the command for the image, because I need just to update the
image of partion and not the partition-table and GRUB.

Thank you,
Gianluca