From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Feb 23 20:43:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from picard.skynet.be (picard.skynet.be [195.238.3.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC5DB37B402 for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 20:43:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.0.1.17] (ip-27.shub-internet.org [194.78.144.27] (may be forged)) by picard.skynet.be (8.11.6/8.11.6/Skynet-OUT-2.16) with ESMTP id g1O4hF814313; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 05:43:15 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from ) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: X-Grok: +++ath X-WebTV-Stationery: Standard; BGColor=black; TextColor=black Reply-By: Wed, 1 Jan 1984 12:34:56 +0100 X-Message-Flag: Outlook : A program to spread viri via e-mail. Try Eudora (http://www.eudora.com/), mutt (http://www.mutt.org/), or pine (http://www.washington.edu/pine/). But please, get something other than Outlook. Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 05:43:15 +0100 To: Matt Wilbur , Chip Morton From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Drive/Partition Copying Utilities Cc: FreeBSD Chat Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" 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 At 7:13 PM -0800 2002/02/23, Matt Wilbur wrote: > 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.. I know that Ghost is good for doing a bit-for-bit disk copy for Microsoft OSes, but does it really properly grok Linux and FreeBSD filesystems? How does it manage to grow a Linux or FreeBSD filesystem? Heck, for that matter, how does it manage to grow a Microsoft filesystem? -- Brad Knowles, Do you hate Microsoft? Do you hate Outlook? Then visit the Anti-Outlook page at and see how much fun you can have. "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message