From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 15 22:23:40 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 ED31F16A420 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:23:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from letter2steve@yahoo.com) Received: from web51406.mail.yahoo.com (web51406.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.38.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3784843D45 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:23:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from letter2steve@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 6719 invoked by uid 60001); 15 Feb 2006 22:23:37 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=uHs2d/IArWwA7NvyosQVH7GVDIytm7sbz9gMcAVPDIot26AkgYY9u6Ess9+SBjgVT5lIO+lBJKo6wKW7g08U8UeDe7uS6fkqU324ghg6bm1SIOMQdJPsS10BxZGQqnSjBNUW9myUuy52+mWv3HNEVvtjWvsHosGqiClMuRii8dY= ; Message-ID: <20060215222337.6717.qmail@web51406.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [199.243.104.196] by web51406.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:23:37 PST Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:23:37 -0800 (PST) From: Steve Quinn To: Joe Auty In-Reply-To: <2DEE7242-F283-4C35-85B4-99847DE989A6@netmusician.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: 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: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:23:41 -0000 --- Joe Auty wrote: > > It sort of helps, but sort of doesn't at the same time. I've tried > the dump command from the script using the correct slices, and still > had that kernel panic. I figured that using the Freesbie CD might be > a way of testing whether my install on my master/source drive was > somehow messed up, but I haven't gone very far with that (dump > reports "unsupported file system" errors). > > I've also looked at growfs, but I'm not entirely sure how to handle > the prequisite to using it which is using bsdlabel. It seems that > running bsdlabel within /stand/sysinstall doesn't recognize the free > space, so I can't create a new partition map that reflects this free > space. I'll keep working at it though... > > > Thanks for your help! > Hi Joe I didnt want to confuse you by adding the fact that dump/restore also eliminated the need to worry about empty blocks but I'm glad Jerry mentioned it. Thanks Jerry I hope that you have a better handle on this now Joe I'd be interested in seeing your /etc/fstab and script just to see if it's a simple typo or something. Take care Steve __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com