From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Feb 24 8:53: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from donut.efs.org (donut.efs.org [216.141.160.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 389DF37B400 for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 08:52:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from sargon.photon.com (ritz.photon.com [216.141.160.144]) by donut.efs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82ED05BDE; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 08:58:53 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 08:52:57 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Wilbur X-Sender: matt@sargon.photon.com To: Brad Knowles Cc: Chip Morton , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Drive/Partition Copying Utilities In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Brad Knowles wrote: > 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? doh, you're right. ghost 'groks' ntfs/fat32/ext2fs (and will resize them), but not ffs. as to how, i don't know the nuts and bolts, but if you're going from a say, 2G ext2 (shudder) partition (or disk) to an 8G partition (or disk) it'll ask you how big you want the target to be, and it'll accept values between the 'source' volume's size and the max available on the new partition or disk. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message