Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 21:35:10 -0600 From: Damien Tougas <damien@tougas.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Consultant <consult9@bellsouth.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cloning a hard drive Message-ID: <20000503213509.A556@tougas.net> In-Reply-To: <20000504124906.G22025@freebie.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Thu, May 04, 2000 at 12:49:06PM %2B0930 References: <001a01bfb577$1a4f3f00$7ada4dd8@emerald> <20000504124906.G22025@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 12:49:06PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > Use dd. If your drive is /dev/da2, and you want to copy it to > /dev/da3, do: I thought that this only works if the drives are identical? When upgrading to a larger drive, I have always created new filesystems first with the required sizes, then did a dump/restore from the old filesystems to the new filesystems. -- Damien Tougas, P.Eng. Phone: (780)434-5889 Fax: (780)434-5889 E-mail: damien@tougas.net http://www.tougas.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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