Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 10:50:51 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Grant Peel <gpeel@thenetnow.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cloning a disk -large to small Message-ID: <20070304104410.V77306@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <005501c75e44$1107f630$6501a8c0@GRANT> References: <005501c75e44$1107f630$6501a8c0@GRANT>
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On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Grant Peel wrote: > I have been researching the use of 'dd' quite a bit lately as I have > had to clone a newly setup server. dump/restore is generally a better solution for cloning drives. On large drives, dd wastes a lot of time copying empty sectors. > I was wondering though, if one had a newly setup disk on a 74 GB SCSI > dirve, is there some know turning that can be done to clone it to a > smaller drive? Say 36 GB? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK Using dump works for going from large to small partitions, too, as long as the small partition is big enough to hold all the data. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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