From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 3 20:39: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tougas.net (24.65.101.26.ab.wave.home.com [24.65.101.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1CCA37BF84 for ; Wed, 3 May 2000 20:38:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dtougas@tougas.net) Received: (from dtougas@localhost) by tougas.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA00805; Wed, 3 May 2000 21:35:10 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from dtougas) Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 21:35:10 -0600 From: Damien Tougas To: Greg Lehey Cc: Consultant , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cloning a hard drive Message-ID: <20000503213509.A556@tougas.net> References: <001a01bfb577$1a4f3f00$7ada4dd8@emerald> <20000504124906.G22025@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000504124906.G22025@freebie.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Thu, May 04, 2000 at 12:49:06PM +0930 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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