From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 11 14:51:09 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 D771B16A41F for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 14:51:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gpeel@thenetnow.com) Received: from webmaillogin.com (fr6.webmaillogin.com [216.40.35.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6924143D4C for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 14:51:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gpeel@thenetnow.com) Received: from [216.240.12.2] (account gpeel@thenetnow.com HELO GRANT) by fr6.webmaillogin.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3.8) with ESMTPA id 9405167; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 09:51:08 -0500 Message-ID: <000801c6451b$3b700b30$6701a8c0@GRANT> From: "Grant Peel" To: "Chuck Swiger" , "freebsd-questions" References: <001e01c64518$3df70b90$6701a8c0@GRANT> <4412E108.9020902@mac.com> Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 09:51:03 -0500 Organization: The Net Now Internet MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Cc: Subject: Re: Fw: dd - cloning a disk. Second Part! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Grant Peel List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 14:51:09 -0000 Thanks Chuck, I was kinda thinkning Dump and Restore might be the way to go. I have never tried to use it to make a bootable disk though...does it do it automaticly or should I read something? (What)? Thanks again, -Grant ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Swiger" To: "Grant Peel" ; "freebsd-questions" Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 9:39 AM Subject: Re: Fw: dd - cloning a disk. Second Part! > Grant Peel wrote: >> I the answer is yes to the first question (original question), then, >> what happens if one 'dd's a small, say 36 GM disk to a larger one, say >> 73 GB. Can the newly made disk be resized so as not to loose 1/2 of it? > > If you partition the bigger disk into two fdisk partitions, one of which > is > exactly the size of your original disk, you could use dd to copy the > contents of > the BSD slice from one disk to the other, and then use newfs to create a > separate filesystem on the second fdisk partition. > > However, if you want to use the entire 73GB space at once, use dump and > restore > to copy the data instead. There's detailed documentation on this on the > FreeBSD > website... > > -- > -Chuck >