From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 25 5:59:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from proxy.centtech.com (moat.centtech.com [206.196.95.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7256F37B400 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 05:59:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from sprint.centtech.com (sprint.centtech.com [10.177.173.31]) by proxy.centtech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1PDxGK23811; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 07:59:16 -0600 (CST) Received: from centtech.com (proton [10.177.173.77]) by sprint.centtech.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA22081; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 07:59:16 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3C7A42BC.5F5CA956@centtech.com> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 07:57:16 -0600 From: Eric Anderson Reply-To: anderson@centtech.com Organization: Centaur Technology X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chip Morton Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Drive/Partition Copying Utilities References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020224124541.018da8d0@threespace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Yes.. I do it with compact flash all the time. I use it to copy fat32, ffs, and ext2 (have not tried any ext3 yet). Eric Chip Morton wrote: > > You used dd to copy which types of partitions? Have you successfully > copied any bootable partitions this way? > > At 10:13 AM 2/24/2002, Eric Anderson wrote: > >I have even used dd to do this too.. Not as "fun" tho as ghost.. > > > > > > > >Brad Knowles wrote: > > > > > > The Linux and FreeBSD stuff should be easy -- simply use the > > > standard OS-provided utilities to do a "dump | restore", and you > > > should be done. The FAT32 and NTFS stuff may require something a bit > > > more involved, perhaps including some third-party software, etc.... > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology If at first you don't succeed, sky diving is probably not for you. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message