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Date:      Thu, 21 Dec 2000 18:10:02 +0100
From:      Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>
To:        Mark Saldanha <mark_saldanha@hotmail.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Making a copy of a existing drive
Message-ID:  <3A42396A.989606C1@i-clue.de>
References:  <LAW2-F95zDgtZKpjE5a000043c1@hotmail.com>

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Mark Saldanha schrieb:
> 
> Hi
> 
> Okay...I have a 9 gb drive on a PC running FreeBSD. I have added or  mounted
> a 20gb Drive now and I want to make a copy of the first disk so that I can
> remove it and use the 20gb as the only drive.  I have tried using dd but not
> sure of the exact command that I should use.

Since the hint I gave wasn't enough to point you in the right direction,

- search the mailing list archive (http://www.freebsd.org/mail/) for
"cloning disks"
- be aware you have to tune the cloned drive by hand to get larger
capacity into freebsd
- try dd if=/dev/rad0 of=/dev/rad1 to clone the drive. Read up on the
mailing list what this does, or you _will_ shoot yourself in your own
foot.

If you want to be on the safe side, swap disks first, then install
FreeBSD anew.

HTH
-Christoph Sold


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