Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 06:44:32 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: nathan <beemern@telecom.ksu.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: imaging /dev/ad* Message-ID: <14822.62880.317501.405293@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <94407220@toto.iv>
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nathan writes: > i have a full 3 gig harddrive and i wanna put in a 15 gig to replace it > the 3 gig is dedicated to /usr only, and after moving the data over to > the new 15 gig, i'm gonna remove it permanantly. i wanna make 8 gig > outta the new 15 for /usr > > can i just do this after putting in the 15 gig? > > dd if=/dev/ad1 of=/dev/ad0 bs=8568 > > or should i create slices first THEN use dd?? > also.. if this DOES work.. does the source and dest devices have to be > the same size? You sholdn't use dd. There's a FAQ entry on how to moveing data to new drives. Read it. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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