Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 15:00:09 -0600 From: Tyson Boellstorff <perlcat@alltel.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: G4U inquiry Message-ID: <200812041500.09469.perlcat@alltel.net> In-Reply-To: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E9015E400A@www.fcimail.org> References: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E9015E400A@www.fcimail.org>
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On Thursday 04 December 2008 14:44:40 Jean-Paul Natola wrote: > I have a bsd box with a 12 gig drive- I'm going to get a new drive (larger) > to replace it as it is quite old and slow - > > My question is when I clone it with g4u where will the extra space go > it's in the faq. http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/#disks 5.4 A word on disk sizes The question how g4u deals with different disk sizes arises a lot too. The general answer is, g4u works best with identical disk sizes & geometry. Putting an image from a small disk on a big disk works, putting an image from a big disk to a small disk is likely to cause problems. If you cannot avoid preparing an image on a big disk that'll get deployed to a small disk later, make sure the "extra" space is not occupied by a active partition or filesystem, else data loss is very likely to occur! If you intend to deploy a "small" image to a "big" disk, the extra space that's not covered by g4u can be used for creating a partition and a filesystem. You will have to do that on your own, e.g. using your operating systems' post installation steps.
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