From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 30 13: 6:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kachina.som.siu.edu (kachina.som.siu.edu [131.230.167.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFFFD15230 for ; Fri, 30 Apr 1999 13:06:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from parrothd@midwest.net) Received: from tlingle (webct.som.siu.edu [131.230.167.194]) by kachina.som.siu.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA00523; Fri, 30 Apr 1999 14:56:36 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199904301956.OAA00523@kachina.som.siu.edu> X-Sender: parrothd@mail.midwest.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 15:01:13 -0500 To: Aron Green From: "Jonathan E. Lyons" Subject: Re: Moving OS to a new disk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: <199904301548.KAA29338@cdale3.midwest.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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