From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 14 23:25:58 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6957B16A420 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 23:25:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0337643D48 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 23:25:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [192.168.2.2] ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k1ENO3Qc081969; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:24:28 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <43F26689.5010007@daleco.biz> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:23:53 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Giorgos Keramidas References: <20060214202812.GB1071@flame.pc> In-Reply-To: <20060214202812.GB1071@flame.pc> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Joe Auty , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: best approach to clone a disk? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 23:25:58 -0000 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >On 2006-02-14 13:19, Joe Auty wrote: > > >>What is your strategy for dealing with disks of different sizes, like >>mine are? >> >> > >See a very similar thread which started a few days back: > >http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-February/112498.html > > Yes, and I just posted a brief report on my experience with this today, with the same thread subject line. Other than the fact that Giorgos had forgotten three keystrokes, which I corrected in my "one for the archives" post this morning, I have a feeling my 12-year-old son, or at least my college age "apprentice" could have cloned a FreeBSD installation in a relatively short period of time with dump | restore. Or maybe a trained monkey. Nah, nevermind.... Kevin Kinsey -- Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. -- Alan Watts