Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:07:37 +0000 From: Alec Berryman <alec@thened.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: best approach to clone a disk? Message-ID: <20060214170737.GA23816@thened.net> In-Reply-To: <39D18F08-5443-4642-AE0B-636415239F6B@netmusician.org> References: <39D18F08-5443-4642-AE0B-636415239F6B@netmusician.org>
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--ZPt4rx8FFjLCG7dd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Joe Auty on 2006-02-14 11:49:05 -0500: > What is the best way to clone a disk in FreeBSD? [...] > Can I use DD on two disks of different size? Do you recommend Ghost =20 > for Unix? g4u is a very nice wrapper for dd. I've had great success with it for identically-sized disks; there shouldn't be a problem if the target disk is larger than the source disk, because you can edit the partitions around and then growfs. Don't overlook tar, though - it doesn't care about disk sizes as long as you have enough free space, doesn't care about partitions, and is simpler in many cases. If you boot up to the fixit image from an install CD you can partition and newfs to however you like and then untar. --ZPt4rx8FFjLCG7dd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFD8g5ZAud/2YgchcQRAjHiAKCp6dEDU4HsfEFi0Abf02Fn4uywaQCg1oK0 dcHp65xs4juqg/5KlL8GY/E= =2yJW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ZPt4rx8FFjLCG7dd--
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