I was looking around for a way to clone one hard drive to another, and I ran across an interesting utility called PartImage. Originally, I tried to image one 100GB drive to another using a normal dd command, like so:

dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb

I let that run for about 20 hours and it still wasn’t done! Partimage seemed like a better choice since it only copies the existing data on the drive, and not all of the empty space too. But better, yet, you can get a whole rescue CD that has a PartitionMagic clone included!

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Friday I’ll be off to the US to go to my sisters wedding and work for a couple of weeks. Getting tickets isn’t cheap from Germany this time of year (end of July, beginning of August), so we decided to wait until the last minute and book tickets from www.ltur.de. They have extremely good prices for various trips to the US and vacation packages to areas in and around Europe. Actually getting the tickets you want can be a bit of a problem, but overall they’re a good deal; you just have to sit at the edge of your seat, bite your nails, and hope that a ticket comes along that gets you near your destination. Not everyone can play that game - and it almost backfired when I booked one ticket, but then couldn’t get a second one until about 20 minutes later for some strange internet reason.

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