From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 4 14:16:21 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 724A316A403 for ; Thu, 4 May 2006 14:16:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paul+fbsd@it.ca) Received: from mail2.dm.egate.net (mail2.dm.egate.net [216.235.1.136]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E69AB43D46 for ; Thu, 4 May 2006 14:16:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from paul+fbsd@it.ca) Received: from mail.it.ca (root@[216.235.7.67]) by mail2.dm.egate.net (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k44EGJUU003580; Thu, 4 May 2006 10:16:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from paul+fbsd@it.ca) Received: from mail.it.ca (paul@mail [216.235.7.67]) by mail.it.ca (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k44EFuor082299; Thu, 4 May 2006 10:15:56 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from paul+fbsd@it.ca) Received: (from paul@localhost) by mail.it.ca (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id k44EFthq082298; Thu, 4 May 2006 10:15:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from paul+fbsd@it.ca) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.it.ca: paul set sender to paul+fbsd@it.ca using -f Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 10:15:55 -0400 From: Paul Chvostek To: Andrew Message-ID: <20060504141555.GA81107@it.ca> References: <1146695806.3352.14.camel@LatitudeFC5.network> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1146695806.3352.14.camel@LatitudeFC5.network> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List , "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Subject: Re: "dd" question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 14:16:21 -0000 On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 05:36:46PM -0500, Andrew wrote: > On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 14:11 -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > Can I used dd from my freebsd box to > > completely copy the whole disk, partition tables and all, to another > > disk? ... > have another suggestion. If you think the disk will be ok, use dd to > "zero-out" the rest of the drive; i.e. ... > One of these days, I am going to write a tool to do just this sort of > thing, since it seems to be a fairly common practice. I believe that tool would be g4u, http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/, along with the FAQ at http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/#shrinkimg . p -- Paul Chvostek it.canada http://www.it.ca/