From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 4 21:00:11 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D0F51065673 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2008 21:00:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perlcat@alltel.net) Received: from ispmxmta06-srv.windstream.net (ispmxmta06-srv.windstream.net [166.102.165.167]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F005E8FC20 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2008 21:00:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perlcat@alltel.net) Received: from ispmxaamta04-gx.windstream.net ([67.206.61.15]) by ispmxmta06-srv.windstream.net with ESMTP id <20081204210010.LEQT22277.ispmxmta06-srv.windstream.net@ispmxaamta04-gx.windstream.net> for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2008 15:00:10 -0600 Received: from ext-b14-271.omhq.uprr.com ([67.206.61.15]) by ispmxaamta04-gx.windstream.net with ESMTP id <20081204210010.RMIY10030.ispmxaamta04-gx.windstream.net@ext-b14-271.omhq.uprr.com> for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2008 15:00:10 -0600 From: Tyson Boellstorff To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 15:00:09 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E9015E400A@www.fcimail.org> In-Reply-To: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E9015E400A@www.fcimail.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200812041500.09469.perlcat@alltel.net> X-Cloudmark-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=CTE117Eg/iuqh1XhPg9HnQ==:17 a=LF2H9gmUAAAA:8 a=MPUQOsYUVB78HaFJ2E8A:9 a=3TKPyQIdDRu68lWFvGP3T_Pyc0QA:4 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Subject: Re: G4U inquiry 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: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:00:11 -0000 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.