Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 16:15:23 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Tyson Boellstorff <perlcat@alltel.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: G4U inquiry Message-ID: <20081204211523.GA2693@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200812041500.09469.perlcat@alltel.net> References: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E9015E400A@www.fcimail.org> <200812041500.09469.perlcat@alltel.net>
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On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 03:00:09PM -0600, Tyson Boellstorff wrote: > 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 > > Usually you are much better off creating new [slices and] partitions with new appropriate sizes, newfs-ing the partitions to turn them in to filesystems and then copying the previous disk filesystem by filesystem to the new disk - using dump/restore. Then you will not be stuck with geometry mismatches and wasted disk space. I have posted excruciatingly detailed instructions for this sort of things about every coupld of months on this list as other have asked. A little searching should find one. If not, I can give a basic rundown. ////jerry > > 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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