From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Oct 4 15:19:42 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98418AF3B3B for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2016 15:19:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from luzar722@gmail.com) Received: from mail-io0-x235.google.com (mail-io0-x235.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c06::235]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5E1B07F8 for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2016 15:19:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from luzar722@gmail.com) Received: by mail-io0-x235.google.com with SMTP id r30so31277297ioi.1 for ; Tue, 04 Oct 2016 08:19:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=vTDtF6HmRrYmPEsYKjdtCtKOPq3e+kJg7oPpliLIJJE=; b=bN7cCrIvVv8srkHwLKUaVIKMSaS8Bbajv717Q1ke/6I3LMJmPWnqMuFFxiTgBR2KP0 5pJeRe/dKH4Mo8TNXKa/IDSfM67uwPYhUgUF+K4H7MdI/+5yQcV8Slf6jB1nYC0JbgIm K4anW68TLUx3uVjpQkVnoWMfc9e5+dAoA7Ec+0xLEW3kB3O9Izq8IYKFID04PhFv4v55 SaLLnFftVlGegTcVm9DHpWYSGU0lLEL4etojz59AAQe267IHexJrxNQFUVNfB8RqP0c8 Cal87BZ484Z/aS9ZDBUgFQw6EvbOE4hPyZN8XVJUivVyzIecPxB/m+2RXDcyNgEAcYwt fdpw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=vTDtF6HmRrYmPEsYKjdtCtKOPq3e+kJg7oPpliLIJJE=; b=WfyaGJLdxvP4CYF+tO6xR98PhGixuSDlUHMqgmkvOmsgm6xb0zmPZkdxiv6V4vDe6p 2ro0azGmkmOjVLGDwM7XhQOoMI8cK1ZM2GuRcmI4X6kZHhr1tNPgZ209srKBwUUMx2mU e7Q+Gx2Z/dkqB1+9hIYTj7G59OgKuzRtcxVpYqrDG0qJX+4eplvDhy2HNm8bsPk44OsP thei+iUxoz+4AaNrUlPNoIRynN04k+ra1l/Rim7VzTG/TVEQJEG2DSpag65czkUu4fxx SgCPQvmSR3b+dEARArcJ6ByNoFx3XcDRYnVqoYmZT4gpkZ7yzvwE5mLqcy9M8GTuQTHs rrhg== X-Gm-Message-State: AA6/9RnwWHgxWY9o8jW+ha8xWcMZIuofWB0wvTKp4LgkTJArn+AO9XAiBBVwbdrTs3NO1A== X-Received: by 10.107.128.205 with SMTP id k74mr5231996ioi.223.1475594381529; Tue, 04 Oct 2016 08:19:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.10.3] (cpe-24-165-201-26.neo.res.rr.com. [24.165.201.26]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id x128sm9867470ite.22.2016.10.04.08.19.40 (version=TLS1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 04 Oct 2016 08:19:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <57F3C897.2020600@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2016 11:19:51 -0400 From: Ernie Luzar User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Polytropon CC: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Clone a FBSD system to a smaller disk. References: <57EC9527.7020202@rcn.com> <57F3B40B.2080804@gmail.com> <20161004170942.8875cd6a.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20161004170942.8875cd6a.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2016 15:19:42 -0000 Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 04 Oct 2016 09:52:11 -0400, Ernie Luzar wrote: >> I have a 10.3 box using a MBR 1.5 TB hard drive. This Box acts as the >> LANs front door firewall to the public network. The 1.5 TB disk is being >> waisted in this situation. What would you recommend as the quickest >> method to clone the running system from the 1.5TB disk to a 40MB disk? > > Preparing the target disk with MBR or GPT or Dedicated (use GPT > except you have a good reason not to), then use dump + restore. > You can find more information here: > > http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html#_the_new_standard_gpt > > http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/backup.html#_copying_filesystems > > The advantage of dump | restore is that only blocks in use will > be copied, and it works on file system level (instead of disk > block level like dd). Initializing the target disk prior to > starting the copy operation will make sure the partition data > is being written to the correct places. > > Thanks for your quick reply. I would like to do the same thing with a win7 disk as source. But on my 10.3 and 11.0-rc2 systems the mount_ntfs command is missing. How do I mount a win7 disk in read mode so I can back it up?