Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 15:01:13 -0500 From: "Jonathan E. Lyons" <parrothd@midwest.net> To: Aron Green <agreen@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving OS to a new disk Message-ID: <199904301956.OAA00523@kachina.som.siu.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904301354140.41729-100000@sheep.pinkle.com> References: <199904301548.KAA29338@cdale3.midwest.net>
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Actually I think you can, but you may wanna experiment with it first, I know there's no problem when it's a fat/fat16/32, and I seem to remember doing a few NTFS drives(probably not), but when doing an unreadable(Probably, since it's DOS based) drive format I think it copies byte by byte, and creates an open partion for the remaining space. So if you cloned a 4 gig disk to an 8 gig, it will create a copy of the 4 gig and a second partion of 4 gigs. At least I think...Great now I'll have to try it.......... :) You could Ghost the drive, then format the remaining space and mount that under usr/somewhere, say a lot of time... At 01:54 PM 4/30/99 -0400, you wrote: >Have you tried this with different SIZE drives? I have a 4 gig drive I'd >like to copy to an 8 gig.. I'd actually like to resize /usr too.. anyone >have any decent suggestions? > >Aron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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