From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 7 10:16:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7135737B401 for ; Fri, 7 Jun 2002 10:16:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) id g57HGMa8096870; Fri, 7 Jun 2002 12:16:22 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 12:16:22 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: JR Richards Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ghosting-like application Message-ID: <20020607171622.GB9067@dan.emsphone.com> References: <001801c20e48$6736bd30$3002a8c0@JR> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001801c20e48$6736bd30$3002a8c0@JR> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jun 07), JR Richards said: > How do I basically ghost my whole FreeBSD harddrive onto another > harddrive? If the drives are the same size, "dd if=/dev/da0 of=/dev/da1 bs=1m" If they're different sizes, you'll have to partition and format the 2nd drive's filesystems, and use a dump | restore pipe to copy the data. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message