From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 10 17:52:38 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 DB33216A420 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 17:52:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsilver@chrononomicon.com) Received: from trans-warp.net (hyperion.trans-warp.net [216.37.208.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9722743D45 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 17:52:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsilver@chrononomicon.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unverified [65.193.73.208]) by trans-warp.net (SurgeMail 3.7a) with ESMTP id 41854672 for multiple; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:52:29 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20060210161137.49552.qmail@web60012.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20060210161137.49552.qmail@web60012.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <0b97564e6d9152fa6078bba57ddc8457@chrononomicon.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Bart Silverstrim Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:52:41 -0500 To: Peter X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.623) X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-1980812739 X-Authenticated-User: bsilver@chrononomicon.com Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 17:52:39 -0000 On Feb 10, 2006, at 11:11 AM, Peter wrote: > > --- Bart Silverstrim wrote: > >> >> On Feb 10, 2006, at 9:50 AM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> >>> On 2006-02-10 09:44, Peter wrote: >>>> --- Giorgos Keramidas 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?