Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:45:38 -0500 From: Chip Morton <tech_info@threespace.com> To: FreeBSD Chat <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Drive/Partition Copying Utilities Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20020224124537.018da7d0@threespace.com>
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At 11:43 PM 2/23/2002, Brad Knowles wrote: > I know that Ghost is good for doing a bit-for-bit disk copy for > Microsoft OSes, but does it really properly grok Linux and FreeBSD > filesystems? How does it manage to grow a Linux or FreeBSD > filesystem? Heck, for that matter, how does it manage to grow a > Microsoft filesystem? I know that PowerQuest PartitionMagic has had the ability to "grow" and "shrink" Microsoft filesystems for a while now. The growing process is actually fast, since it seems to just move the partition boundary and clean out the newly created space. The shrinking requires a defrag, so it take much longer. This has actually worked pretty well on FAT/FAT32 drives for me, but the one time I tried it on an NTFS drive, it screwed up the NTLDR file, and it's really a PITA to get that thing back in place. For Linux and BSD filesystems, PartitionMagic will just tell you that the partitions are there and then (wisely) not allow you to do anything with them except format/delete them. When this problem came up, PowerQuest DriveCopy was the first thing that popped into my head, but I have no experience with it. I hadn't even considered Norton Ghost; I was unaware that it could resize partitions or do anything more than reimage to a drive of exactly the same size. I'll have to give it a look. Thanks all, Chip Morton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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