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

[Kristian E. H. <kri...@gm...>]

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...
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