Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:19:23 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Joey Mingrone <joey@mingrone.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: duplicate a drive Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0810241217370.14156@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <f5b896260810240929s3c21eb2cj1a5571c2498c54c9@mail.gmail.com> References: <f5b896260810240929s3c21eb2cj1a5571c2498c54c9@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Joey Mingrone wrote: > The next thing I've tried to do, without success, is mirror the > contents of the 2.5" drive to a 3.5" drive in the desktop. > > The 2.5" drive is sliced/partitioned like this: > > Filesystem Size Mounted on > /dev/ad0s2a 989M / > /dev/ad0s2d 989M /tmp > /dev/ad0s2f 59G /usr > /dev/ad0s2e 989M /var > > ad0s1 is a 20GB slice that I have window installed on. > > The drive's total capacity is 80G. > > The 3.5" drive is only 70G so I'll have to skip the ad0s1 slice. > Ideally what I'd like to do is copy everything from the ad0s2 slice to > the 3.5" and run the OS off that drive. Then, each dump the contents > of the 3.5" drive to the 2.5" drive. That way if either drive dies > I'll, hopefully at worst, just have to switch which drive I boot from. > > Can anyone with experience doing something this make suggestions? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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