Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 11:22:27 -0500 From: Ken Stevenson <ken@allenmyland.com> To: Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Bart Silverstrim <bsilver@chrononomicon.com> Subject: Re: Using dd to Make a Clone of a Drive Message-ID: <43ECBDC3.3030305@allenmyland.com> In-Reply-To: <20060210161137.49552.qmail@web60012.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20060210161137.49552.qmail@web60012.mail.yahoo.com>
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Peter wrote: > > I intend to use g4u. I have done some preliminary testing and I am quite > confident that I can upload and download an image. I am now wondering > about the situation where I need to recreate the partition that is to > contain the image. It needs to be exactly the same size (sectors) as the > image. That's what I'm worried about. Any suggestions? > You don't create a partition to restore to when you're using g4u. It does a bit by bit copy so it creates the slice and partitions for you automatically. As the documentation for g4u says, it's most useful when the source disk and target disk are the same size. It works when the target disk is bigger, but the slice will only be as big as the original slice. -- Ken Stevenson Allen-Myland Inc.
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