From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 7 12: 3:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [63.93.4.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A56B337B42A for ; Fri, 7 Jun 2002 12:03:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost.wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g57J36uF078696; Fri, 7 Jun 2002 13:03:06 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit) with ESMTP id g57J32ZQ078693; Fri, 7 Jun 2002 13:03:06 -0600 (MDT)?g (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 13:03:02 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: JR Richards Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ghosting-like application In-Reply-To: <001801c20e48$6736bd30$3002a8c0@JR> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, JR Richards wrote: > How do I basically ghost my whole FreeBSD harddrive onto another > harddrive? I was going to say it's too bad partimage doesn't support UFS, but it has beta support for it as of a few days ago! See: http://www.partimage.org Somewhere on the web I found a bootable CD image which contains some version of Linux and many tools like partimage. That CD has been very helpful in cloning Windows PCs--connect a hard drive with an ext2fs partition, boot off the CD, then use partimage to copy the original hard drive partition to the ext2fs partition. Reverse the process for a new drive, plus you now have a backup of the whole partition. It's faster than dd because it only copies used blocks. (Now if only there were a FreeBSD port, and a bootable CD image with lots of partition tools, I wouldn't have to remember the Linux version of commands and device names...) -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message