Saving Win2K disk image using Partimage and CIFS

At work I've got this computer set up with Windows 2000 and Office XP just like I like it.  Now I want to "image" the hard drive so that later on if anything happens I can just restore the image to this computer (with all the drivers and updates and everything) and it will be just like it is now.

I've done this before.  I use a great free Linux program called Partimage.  This can be found in the Knoppix distro, but recently I've been using System Rescue CD.  I shut down the computer and booted from System Rescue CD ver. 1.1.4 using the "dodhcp" option so it would connect to my network.

Then, to make the disk image smaller, I wanted to delete the Windows paging file (pagefile.sys) before I made the image.  To do this, I first needed to mount my Windows partition.  From System Rescue CD Linux command prompt, I typed:

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows

then just   cd /mnt/windows   and    rm pagefile.sys

Next, I had to mount a shared folder from my Windows 2000 domain to save the disk image to.  Usually, I have been doing this using smbfs, but when I did this the other day, the new Linux kernel told me smbfs is deprecated and to use cifs now instead.  Here's how I used to do it with smbfs:

mount -t smbfs -o lfs,username=administrator //machinename/sharename /mnt/smb

but this time I did it with cifs:

mount -t cifs -o username=administrator //machinename/sharename /mnt/smb

When I ran Partimage, I kept getting this error "Cannot create temp file" "no space left on device" from Partimage.  I couldn't believe that I had ran out of space at first.  So I went back and tried to unmount the cifs share, but I got an "Unable to umount, device is busy" error.  I tried googling around for a solution, and finally found this page.  I needed to do a "lazy" unmount:

umount -l /mnt/smb   (I'm very thankful for this tip!)

After further research, I found that the device I was trying to save the image to actually _was_ full, and after deleting some files, partimage worked just fine.  What's more, cifs is significantly faster than smbfs!