From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Dec 6 9:14:37 2000 From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 6 09:14:34 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from bilver.wjv.com (dhcp-1-181.n01.orldfl01.us.ra.verio.net [157.238.210.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A23D337B400 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 09:14:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bill@localhost) by bilver.wjv.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA17649 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 12:14:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bill) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 12:14:29 -0500 From: Bill Vermillion To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dd + larger disk Message-ID: <20001206121429.A17600@wjv.com> Reply-To: bv@bilver.wjv.com References: <20001206111025.A16633@wjv.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET on Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 11:13:33AM -0500 Organization: W.J.Vermillion / Orlando - Winter Park Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 11:13:33AM -0500, Matt Heckaman thus spoke: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Bill Vermillion wrote: > ... > : Trying to save time sometimes takes more time. > : > : Build a minimal system on the new 30GB drive, and then > : tar/cpio/pax/whatever each directory structure over. > Wouldn't it be possible to boot off a cd or somesort with a > formatted & partitioned disk and then mount the partitions and > do a dump over the network? I'm interested because I have to do > something like this in January with two machines. Don't see why not if you mean 'dump'. THe original poster was using dd - and transfering images. You don't want do that. So you could probably use your favorite backup tool and just run it over the network. You really want to move files and not images. Doing it this way will at least start you with a frech unfragmented file system. The original poster using dd would find that if he had a fragmented file system to start with he'd have the same. With Unix systems there are so many tools and the trick is knowing which tool to use for the job. dd would be my last choice for transfering data. But if you needed to clone several machine you could dupe the HDs and just pop them in new systems - if everything else matched. Gives you the software equivalent of the hardware drive duplicators. Bill has the > * Matt Heckaman - mailto:matt@lucida.qc.ca http://www.lucida.qc.ca/ * > * GPG fingerprint - A9BC F3A8 278E 22F2 9BDA BFCF 74C3 2D31 C035 5390 * > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) > Comment: http://www.lucida.qc.ca/pgp > > iD8DBQE6LmWudMMtMcA1U5ARAhhyAKCdsaEGwyYWnR6r9owUDiWlZTu8swCfbV1D > j1z82lgXOWPnVxBNNzOSHGY= > =qYiw > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message