From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 14 7:40:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A7B5437B406 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 07:39:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 92105 invoked by uid 100); 14 Jun 2001 14:39:56 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15144.52412.100595.553643@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 09:39:56 -0500 To: Len Conrad Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ghosting a FreeBSD disk or partition In-Reply-To: <8718480@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 Len Conrad types: > With PowerQuest Drive Image or Norton Ghost (or equivalent), does anybody > know whether these can be make to work with FBSD 165 partitions? Ghost works as-is on FreeBSD partitions. Since it doesn't know jack about the file system format, it dumps all the blocks to the image file, and restores them as such. This makes it slower than molasses, and causes it to use nearly as much space as the original FBSD partition. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message