From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Feb 24 8:34:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBD6B37B404 for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 08:34:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a186.otenet.gr [212.205.215.186]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g1OGYFqQ016298; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 18:34:25 +0200 (EET) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1O4J0t17341; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 06:19:00 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 06:18:59 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Matt Wilbur Cc: Chip Morton , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Drive/Partition Copying Utilities Message-ID: <20020224041859.GB4789@hades.hell.gr> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020223202139.0187f118@threespace.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i 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 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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message