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Subject: Re: dd + larger disk
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 21:07:59 -0800
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You may want to use ufsdump or tar to dup disk, instead
of dd which will copy disk lables and the boot sectors
all togather. Unless you can edit your boot sector and
the lables.

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----- Original Message -----
From: <danny@i-p-d.nl>
To: <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 7:49 AM
Subject: dd + larger disk


> First of all dd works fine.
>
> To make things more interesting: I have some machines
with a 10
> GB harddisk. I do a dd to a 30 GB harddisk. The system
works,
> but only as a 10 GB harddisk. (all are dangerous
created disks)
>
> When I try to add a slice and reboot (I do set the
original slice as
> bootable), I get the message that the partition
doesn't work.
>
> When I set the disk as second behind the original one,
I can delete
> the slice and boot again from the new disk. I just
can't get the
> 20GB diskspace working.
>
> I hope anyone can help me!
>
>
> Met vriendelijke groeten,
>
> Danny Zwegers
> Unix SysAdmin (Spec:Domains)
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