Linux Image Question

[Shikaku]

How do I make a disk image of the Linux hard drive I'm booting from...

Bleh.

 

[Vimacs]

dd if=/dev/hda1 of=blub.img bs=512

Replace hda1 with the proper device.

 

[Shikaku]

Ahh. Well I got man/wikipedia for the command specifics. I got one more question: can/how do you compress an output file while it is being made (i.e bzip2 || dd if=/dev/hda1 of=blub.img bs=512), I don't have enough space to make an image....

Nevermind, I guess I accidentally guessed correctly: bzip2 | dd if=[hd] of=out.img bs=512 would work right?

 

[epitaph]

dd if=/dev/hda1 | bzip2 > whatever.bz2

as long as it's the first partition on the primary master you're after.