Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 13:03:02 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: JR Richards <jr@ebcrp.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ghosting-like application Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0206071256310.78677-100000@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <001801c20e48$6736bd30$3002a8c0@JR>
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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
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