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While I had an occasion to make use of the P2V tool from the IFL CD environment, I decided to use the opportunity to take a better look at the textual Help file for the command line shell tools provided there. I had never perused it thoroughly in the past, and I was delighted to find the variety of rescue programs you put into it. It is an impressive assortment for sure, and my favorite one was the awesome hardware reporting program. I ran it on my main PC, and it showed me just about everything I could ever hope, or need, to see about it. I also appreciated the clear explanation given for how to use these programs.

Your inclusion of an ssh client/server program was what made me start thinking more clearly about how your suite of "backup" programs is really more multifaceted than I had thought of it previously. It's really more like a full fledged set of "go-to" rescue tools, but with the added bonus of having the "best" (i.e., dependable, efficient and comprehensive) disk imaging program for either Linux or Windows OS available. I'll go out on a limb here and say that about the only thing I would like to put on a wish-list is a partitioning program (something like, say, fdisk?). I am really, really thinking hard about creating a little partition on my hard disk to put this whole CD image on just so I can be sure it is handy and ready to boot into in a pinch. Take care and thanks for all the great support you guys provide us.

userX wrote:
I'll go out on a limb here and say that about the
> only thing I would like to put on a wish-list is a partitioning program
> (something like, say, fdisk?).

userX,

You can already partition from IFL. Use the linux tbosdt (from BIBM TBOSDT).

partwork for linux should be on the next version...

"userX" wrote in message news:[email protected]...

While I had an occasion to make use of the P2V tool from the IFL CD
environment, I decided to use the opportunity to take a better look at the
textual Help file for the command line shell tools provided there. I had
never perused it thoroughly in the past, and I was delighted to find the
variety of rescue programs you put into it. It is an impressive assortment
for sure, and my favorite one was the awesome hardware reporting program. I
ran it on my main PC, and it showed me just about everything I could ever
hope, or need, to see about it. I also appreciated the clear explanation
given for how to use these programs.

Your inclusion of an ssh client/server program was what made me start
thinking more clearly about how your suite of "backup" programs is really
more multifaceted than I had thought of it previously. It's really more like
a full fledged set of "go-to" rescue tools, but with the added bonus of
having the "best" (i.e., dependable, efficient and comprehensive) disk
imaging program for either Linux or Windows OS available. I'll go out on a
limb here and say that about the only thing I would like to put on a
wish-list is a partitioning program (something like, say, fdisk?). I am
really, really thinking hard about creating a little partition on my hard
disk to put this whole CD image on just so I can be sure it is handy and
ready to boot into in a pinch. Take care and thanks for all the great
support you guys provide us.

userX wrote:
> While I had an occasion to make use of the P2V tool from the IFL CD
> environment, I decided to use the opportunity to take a better look at the
> textual Help file for the command line shell tools provided there. I had
> never perused it thoroughly in the past, and I was delighted to find the
> variety of rescue programs you put into it. It is an impressive assortment
> for sure, and my favorite one was the awesome hardware reporting program. I
> ran it on my main PC, and it showed me just about everything I could ever
> hope, or need, to see about it. I also appreciated the clear explanation
> given for how to use these programs.
>
> Your inclusion of an ssh client/server program was what made me start
> thinking more clearly about how your suite of "backup" programs
> is really more multifaceted than I had thought of it previously. It's
> really more like a full fledged set of "go-to" rescue tools, but
> with the added bonus of having the "best" (i.e., dependable,
> efficient and comprehensive) disk imaging program for either Linux or
> Windows OS available. I'll go out on a limb here and say that about the
> only thing I would like to put on a wish-list is a partitioning program
> (something like, say, fdisk?). I am really, really thinking hard about
> creating a little partition on my hard disk to put this whole CD image on
> just so I can be sure it is handy and ready to boot into in a pinch. Take
> care and thanks for all the great support you guys provide us.

The IFL boot disk does already contain a couple of partitioning programs.
It currently has 'fdisk' for MBR drives, and 'gdisk' for GPT drives.

"The IFL boot disk does already contain a couple of partitioning programs.
It currently has 'fdisk' for MBR drives, and 'gdisk' for GPT drives."

Indeed, so it does. My bad! I found it now by typing the fdisk command at the prompt. I did not see it before because it was not listed when I had typed "help" at the prompt, and I was assuming that the Linux version you had provided in the CD had been trimmed down to include only those in that listing. I see now that this assumption was my error. Thanks for pointing out the availability of these other commands.