Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 19:42:35 +0200 From: Vasil Dimov <vd@FreeBSD.org> To: Dirk GOUDERS <gouders@et.bocholt.fh-ge.de> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Khaled Hussain <khaled@ipbill.com> Subject: Re: cloning a FreeBSD HDD Message-ID: <20060324174235.GA58111@qlovarnika.bg.datamax> In-Reply-To: <200603241719.k2OHJDbh012213@sora.hank.home> References: <HCEOIFALKKLBLJPENPNOMEMNCAAA.khaled@ipbill.com> <200603241719.k2OHJDbh012213@sora.hank.home>
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On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 06:19:13PM +0100, Dirk GOUDERS wrote: > Hi, > > > This is my first day on the list so please pardon me if I am on the wrong > > list and any mistakes I make. > > > > I would like to create a bootable clone of a HDD running BSD version 4.8. I > > have experience of cloning linux machines successfully but understand that > > freebsd is a little different. > > please, try to clone your disk as described in the FAQ > "9.2. How do I move my system over to my huge new disk?": > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK > Without reading it, I would first try this, it's quite straightforward * boot into single user mode (enter "boot -s" at loader prompt) * make sure filesystems are mounted readonly (mount) dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad1 bs=1m (where ad0 is your disk with data and ad1 is your new disk, make sure you do not swap them :) -- Vasil Dimov gro.DSBeerF@dv Testing can show the presence of bugs, but not their absence. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra
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