From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 12 11:57:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gateway.telecom.ksu.edu (gateway-1.telecom.ksu.edu [129.130.63.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 359AA37B67A for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 11:57:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sioux.telecom.ksu.edu(129.130.60.32) by pawnee.telecom.ksu.edu via smap (V2.0) id xma009357; Thu, 12 Oct 00 13:57:20 -0500 Message-ID: <39E6097B.AA15367@telecom.ksu.edu> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 13:56:59 -0500 From: nathan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: imaging /dev/ad* Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i have a full 3 gig harddrive and i wanna put in a 15 gig to replace it the 3 gig is dedicated to /usr only, and after moving the data over to the new 15 gig, i'm gonna remove it permanantly. i wanna make 8 gig outta the new 15 for /usr can i just do this after putting in the 15 gig? dd if=/dev/ad1 of=/dev/ad0 bs=8568 or should i create slices first THEN use dd?? also.. if this DOES work.. does the source and dest devices have to be the same size? thanks nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message