Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:01:32 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: Joey Mingrone <joey@mingrone.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: duplicate a drive Message-ID: <20081024170132.GA13074@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <f5b896260810240929s3c21eb2cj1a5571c2498c54c9@mail.gmail.com> References: <f5b896260810240929s3c21eb2cj1a5571c2498c54c9@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 01:29:18PM -0300, Joey Mingrone wrote: > Hi, > > My laptop "died" recently and to get back to work as quickly as > possible I simply took the laptop ide drive and put it into an old > desktop using a 2.5" -> 3.5" ide adapter. After loading a few new > drivers into the kernel everything is working quite well. > > The next thing I've tried to do, without success, is mirror the > contents of the 2.5" drive to a 3.5" drive in the desktop. > > The 2.5" drive is sliced/partitioned like this: > > Filesystem Size Mounted on > /dev/ad0s2a 989M / > /dev/ad0s2d 989M /tmp > /dev/ad0s2f 59G /usr > /dev/ad0s2e 989M /var > > ad0s1 is a 20GB slice that I have window installed on. > > The drive's total capacity is 80G. > > The 3.5" drive is only 70G so I'll have to skip the ad0s1 slice. > Ideally what I'd like to do is copy everything from the ad0s2 slice to > the 3.5" and run the OS off that drive. Then, each dump the contents > of the 3.5" drive to the 2.5" drive. That way if either drive dies > I'll, hopefully at worst, just have to switch which drive I boot from. > > Can anyone with experience doing something this make suggestions? ports/sysutils/cpdup? -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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