From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 23 16:46:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 391D737B400 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 16:46:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5EB9BD9B; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 16:46:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA06603; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 16:46:17 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g0O0n3L01174; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 16:49:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: FreeBSD List Subject: Re: Reversing Linux and FreeBSD running on same system without mutual self-destruction References: <20020123051538.GA3234@raggedclown.net> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 23 Jan 2002 16:49:03 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20020123051538.GA3234@raggedclown.net> Message-ID: Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cliff Sarginson writes: > Here is a challenge. You provided a lot of info, but maybe not enough. I'm not promising any great ideas, but I was wishing you'd have given approximate disk/ partition sizes at least. Amount of unused space for tmp xfr. How many CDs you consider reasonable to write and verify. I couldn't get reliable mounts of Linux from FreeBSD and vice versa, so I tar'd directly into a raw FreeBSD partition from Linux and then from FreeBSD, untar'd it. I know that doesn't address some of your problems. You might best use a scheme which involves putting everything on CD so that you get a free backup in the process. If you've got room, do "dump ... | gzip | split ..." on your partitions and burn them. You'd need a big space to unsplit them to before "zcat ... | restore ...". (I wish I knew how to make a pipe work like a tape drive with end-of-file thingy so you could treat CDs like tapes with dump and restore, and embed a gzip. It should be doable. It probably should even be possible to make it work like a disk drive with 650 MB blocks.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message