Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:47:45 +0100 From: Patrick Lamaiziere <patfbsd@davenulle.org> To: <questions@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Jean-Paul Natola <jnatola@familycareintl.org> Subject: Re: g4u option Message-ID: <20091111004745.6bb5c214@baby-jane.lamaiziere.net> In-Reply-To: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E9015E484A@www.fcimail.org> References: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E9015E484A@www.fcimail.org>
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Le Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:00:56 -0500, "Jean-Paul Natola" <jnatola@familycareintl.org> a =C3=A9crit : > I'm trying to figure out ,if possible, how to get g4u to only clone > data, i.e. > I have an 80 gig drive but my OS and applications only come to about > 6gigs that=E2=80=99s what I want to clone to the new drive. >=20 > Is there a way to accomplish this? g4u uses dd(1) to dump the disk or a partition, then it compresses datas with gzip. It copies *all*. You can save size by filling the filesystem of the partition with '0'. This is in the FAQ of g4u: http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/#shrinkimg g4u is based on NetBSD, not FreeBSD. Regards.
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