Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:52:41 -0500 From: Bart Silverstrim <bsilver@chrononomicon.com> To: Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using dd to Make a Clone of a Drive Message-ID: <0b97564e6d9152fa6078bba57ddc8457@chrononomicon.com> In-Reply-To: <20060210161137.49552.qmail@web60012.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20060210161137.49552.qmail@web60012.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Feb 10, 2006, at 11:11 AM, Peter wrote: > > --- Bart Silverstrim <bsilver@chrononomicon.com> wrote: > >> >> On Feb 10, 2006, at 9:50 AM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> >>> On 2006-02-10 09:44, Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> wrote: >>>> --- Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: >>>>>> As long as the "new" slice had enough space, geometry shouldn't >>>>>> matter to dump|restore .... <?> >>>>> >>>>> Right :) It also allows restoring in a different partition layout. >>>> >>>> Any chance of there being a way like this to restore to windows >>>> systems >>>> from the FreeBSD box? >>> >>> Not really. I'm far from being a Windows expert though, so YMMV. >> >> As an image? Look up partimage and partimaged. We've had some luck >> restoring from both a Linux system running the Partimaged daemon and >> booting from a Linux disk and restoring images off a samba/Windows >> share using partimage. > > 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? Never used g4u...I know that with partimage, if I imaged, say, a 4 gig drive, then pulled it down to a 6 gig drive and booted Windows, Windows (2000) would see 4 gig. I had to use a partition editor (there was a graphical one on one of the Linux rescue CDs) that I used to enlarge the partition, and Win2k didn't seem to care at all. Qtparted, maybe?
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