From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 4 21:20:28 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 E9E97106564A for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2008 21:20:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (gizmo.acns.msu.edu [35.8.1.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9386D8FC12 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2008 21:20:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id mB4LFN6n002736; Thu, 4 Dec 2008 16:15:23 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id mB4LFNwf002735; Thu, 4 Dec 2008 16:15:23 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jerrymc) Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 16:15:23 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister To: Tyson Boellstorff Message-ID: <20081204211523.GA2693@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E9015E400A@www.fcimail.org> <200812041500.09469.perlcat@alltel.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200812041500.09469.perlcat@alltel.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 21:20:29 -0000 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"