From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 10 16:22:45 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 2547516A420 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:22:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ken@allenmyland.com) Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net (sccrmhc11.comcast.net [63.240.77.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A145643D4C for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:22:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ken@allenmyland.com) Received: from bserver.transpack.com ([68.80.195.248]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2006021016223701100dkt08e>; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:22:38 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.transpack.com [127.0.0.1]) by bserver.transpack.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 461E0B843; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 11:22:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from bserver.transpack.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (bserver.transpack.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 06445-10; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 11:22:35 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.214.102] (kbuilt.transpack.com [192.168.214.102]) by bserver.transpack.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4417B842; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 11:22:34 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <43ECBDC3.3030305@allenmyland.com> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 11:22:27 -0500 From: Ken Stevenson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter References: <20060210161137.49552.qmail@web60012.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060210161137.49552.qmail@web60012.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at transpack.com Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Bart Silverstrim Subject: Re: Using dd to Make a Clone of a Drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:22:45 -0000 Peter wrote: > > I intend to use g4u. I have done some preliminary testing and I am quite > confident that I can upload and download an image. I am now wondering > about the situation where I need to recreate the partition that is to > contain the image. It needs to be exactly the same size (sectors) as the > image. That's what I'm worried about. Any suggestions? > You don't create a partition to restore to when you're using g4u. It does a bit by bit copy so it creates the slice and partitions for you automatically. As the documentation for g4u says, it's most useful when the source disk and target disk are the same size. It works when the target disk is bigger, but the slice will only be as big as the original slice. -- Ken Stevenson Allen-Myland Inc.