Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 06:18:59 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Matt Wilbur <matt@efs.org> Cc: Chip Morton <tech_info@threespace.com>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Drive/Partition Copying Utilities Message-ID: <20020224041859.GB4789@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0202231908480.82886-100000@sargon.photon.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020223202139.0187f118@threespace.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0202231908480.82886-100000@sargon.photon.com>
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On 2002-02-23 19:13, Matt Wilbur wrote:
> 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..
Note that AFAIK, ghost doesn't understand BSD slices (called 'partitions'
in the DOS/Windows/Linux part of the world), so you (Chip) would need to
make sure you leave some space 'unused' to be able to create BSD partitions
with the standard fdisk(8) tool of FreeBSD on that disk.
Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project
keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/
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