From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 21 9: 8:50 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 21 09:08:48 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AF9037B400 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 09:08:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id TAA11791; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 19:14:32 +0100 Message-ID: <3A42396A.989606C1@i-clue.de> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 18:10:02 +0100 From: Christoph Sold Organization: i-clue GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Saldanha Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making a copy of a existing drive References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Saldanha schrieb: > > Hi > > Okay...I have a 9 gb drive on a PC running FreeBSD. I have added or mounted > a 20gb Drive now and I want to make a copy of the first disk so that I can > remove it and use the 20gb as the only drive. I have tried using dd but not > sure of the exact command that I should use. Since the hint I gave wasn't enough to point you in the right direction, - search the mailing list archive (http://www.freebsd.org/mail/) for "cloning disks" - be aware you have to tune the cloned drive by hand to get larger capacity into freebsd - try dd if=/dev/rad0 of=/dev/rad1 to clone the drive. Read up on the mailing list what this does, or you _will_ shoot yourself in your own foot. If you want to be on the safe side, swap disks first, then install FreeBSD anew. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message