Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:26:11 -0500 From: Joe Auty <joe@netmusician.org> To: Alec Berryman <alec@thened.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: best approach to clone a disk? Message-ID: <04548C63-4825-45B6-A9F9-5F44D4F17E8C@netmusician.org> In-Reply-To: <20060214170737.GA23816@thened.net> References: <39D18F08-5443-4642-AE0B-636415239F6B@netmusician.org> <20060214170737.GA23816@thened.net>
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On Feb 14, 2006, at 12:07 PM, Alec Berryman wrote: > 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 >> 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. Hmmm... Could you tell me more about how the fixit images work? I've never had to do that... basically, I just need something that will allow me to boot up into single user mode. I've been using the source disk in single user mode, and doing a mount -u / to make sure that it is mounted read only. Before I go this route, I'm thinking it might be wise to give "dump" another try from a working boot CD. What is the best way to create myself a boot CD that I can use to boot up in single user mode? As far as your tar idea, the idea seems great, although I'm not sure whether I have enough space to store both the tarball and the space needed to extract the tarball to. We are talking over a 100 gig here. Thanks for your advice!
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