From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Feb 23 19:13:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from donut.efs.org (donut.efs.org [216.141.160.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A55037B400 for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 19:13:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from sargon.photon.com (ritz.photon.com [216.141.160.144]) by donut.efs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A0BD5BDE; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 19:19:31 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 19:13:39 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Wilbur X-Sender: matt@sargon.photon.com To: Chip Morton Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Drive/Partition Copying Utilities In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20020223202139.0187f118@threespace.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Chip Morton wrote: > > If there are any freely available utilities that perform these tasks, I'd > love to hear about them. Otherwise, if anybody has any experiences > (positive or negative) with any commercially available tools that can get > the job done, I'd like to hear about that too. I have NTFS, FAT32, Linux > and FreeBSD partitions that I'm trying to deal with, so any subset of the > above would be good. > Were you just talking FreeBSD, I'd suggest dump and restore, but with that hodgepodge, you're probably best off using ghost (www.symantec.com). Works very well, and can 'grow' partitions on the fly during the disk cloning.. so you can keep your winders/linux slices the same and make lots more room for FreeBSD :) Ghost's well worth the price.. HTH, Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message