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Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 20:11:59 +0200
From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Chip Morton <tech_info@threespace.com>
Cc: FreeBSD Chat <chat@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Drive/Partition Copying Utilities
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On 2002-02-24 12:45, Chip Morton wrote:
> At 11:18 PM 2/23/2002, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> >Note that AFAIK, ghost doesn't understand BSD slices (called 'partitions'
> >in the DOS/Windows/Linux part of the world), so you (Chip) would need to
> >make sure you leave some space 'unused' to be able to create BSD partitions
> >with the standard fdisk(8) tool of FreeBSD on that disk.
> 
> And I take it that I'd then be back to using the dump/restore combo to move 
> the data to the newly created slices?

Dump(8) can be piped to restore, if you have attached and mounted the two
disks.  For instance, if I wanted to create a copy of ad0 to ad1, and it
had 4 partitions in slice ad0s1, I can fdisk/disklabel ad1 too and mount it
under /mnt.  Then I can:

	# dump 0f - /dev/ad0s1a | ( cd /mnt ; restore ... )

Similar commands for the rest of them partitions in the ad0s1 slice, and
then a bit of editing in /mnt/etc/fstab to accomodate for the partitions of
ad1, and I'm done.

Giorgos Keramidas                           FreeBSD Documentation Project
keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr}      http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/

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