From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Oct 5 03:59:09 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 830CCAF4905 for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2016 03:59:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Olivier.Nicole@cs.ait.ac.th) Received: from mail.cs.ait.ac.th (mail.cs.ait.ac.th [192.41.170.16]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3934CF33 for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2016 03:59:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Olivier.Nicole@cs.ait.ac.th) Received: from mail.cs.ait.ac.th (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.cs.ait.ac.th (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2686D7886; Wed, 5 Oct 2016 10:49:38 +0700 (ICT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=cs.ait.ac.th; h= content-type:content-type:mime-version:message-id:date:date :in-reply-to:subject:subject:from:from:received:received :received; s=selector1; t=1475639378; x=1477453779; bh=199vuIoLo IUozgAqsRx8nzfaHVxroUDOS4AfnUyVkdU=; b=BLOEEHLyx9c+vjUM1U4mNuxGc 2njIIxI4eN3z9e/kvIkQIE4K1TeqlV7V4yHmIaWyFq6KRzyLkubLGu++Bz5zaSZ7 VjouXeh50VzWdZsQss5QmrYSyHZ0kPTPUEojoGG2Kr9vJ4rsff1VbHXMxNLl0tKj YgIbJlGOGsvgXPjb3c= X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cs.ait.ac.th Received: from mail.cs.ait.ac.th ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.cs.ait.ac.th (mail.cs.ait.ac.th [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id z8rYtqUS22kE; Wed, 5 Oct 2016 10:49:38 +0700 (ICT) Received: from banyan.cs.ait.ac.th (banyan.cs.ait.ac.th [192.41.170.5]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.cs.ait.ac.th (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DB1B5D7881; Wed, 5 Oct 2016 10:49:37 +0700 (ICT) Received: (from on@localhost) by banyan.cs.ait.ac.th (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id u953nbmK036555; Wed, 5 Oct 2016 10:49:37 +0700 (ICT) (envelope-from on@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th) From: Olivier To: Ernie Luzar Cc: jd1008@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Clone a FBSD system to a smaller disk. In-Reply-To: <57F3B40B.2080804@gmail.com> (message from Ernie Luzar on Tue, 04 Oct 2016 09:52:11 -0400) Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2016 10:49:36 +0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2016 03:59:09 -0000 Ernie Luzar writes: > I have a 10.3 box using a MBR 1.5 TB hard drive. This Box acts as the > LANs front door firewall to the public network. The 1.5 TB disk is being > waisted in this situation. What would you recommend as the quickest > method to clone the running system from the 1.5TB disk to a 40MB disk? You may want to have a look at https://www.cs.ait.ac.th/~on/technotes/archives/2015/01/30/how-to_clone_a_freebsd_virtual_machine_on_vmware/index.html Igf you forget the part about virtual machine, the part about cloning is there and quite complete. I wrote that as a guide for myself, putting my personal notes one a nice page, so I can refer to it whenever I need it. But if it can help you. Best regards, Olivier