From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 14 18:19:03 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B4F816A423 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 18:19:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joe@netmusician.org) Received: from netmusician.org (netmusician.org [209.67.223.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E47743D48 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 18:19:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joe@netmusician.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by netmusician.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B06F730B7; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:19:02 -0500 (EST) Received: from netmusician.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (netmusician.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 01156-07; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:19:01 -0500 (EST) Received: from [129.79.115.14] (jauty.journalism.indiana.edu [129.79.115.14]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by netmusician.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 759D17303E; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:19:01 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Joe Auty Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:19:00 -0500 To: fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at netmusician.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: best approach to clone a disk? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 18:19:03 -0000 What is your strategy for dealing with disks of different sizes, like mine are? On Feb 14, 2006, at 1:01 PM, fbsd_user wrote: > Cloning a complete HD mbr and all to second HD > in same FreeBSD box is a snap using ghost. > > That's the way I make additional FreeBSD workstation pc'a. > > I take the HD from the target and plug it into the FreeBSD box, then > boot ghost from floppy, do ghost hd to hd copy, remove cloned HD and > put it into target box and boot it up and it runs just like the > original. > > This is not the Freebsd way. > But its quick and can also be used for my window boxs on my LAN. > You get double the bang for your buck. > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Joe Auty > Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 12:26 PM > To: Alec Berryman > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: best approach to clone a disk? > > > > On Feb 14, 2006, at 12:07 PM, Alec Berryman wrote: > >> Joe Auty on 2006-02-14 11:49:05 -0500: >> >>> What is the best way to clone a disk in FreeBSD? >> >> [...] >> >>> Can I use DD on two disks of different size? Do you recommend > Ghost >>> for Unix? >> >> g4u is a very nice wrapper for dd. I've had great success with it > for >> identically-sized disks; there shouldn't be a problem if the > target >> disk is larger than the source disk, because you can edit the >> partitions around and then growfs. >> >> Don't overlook tar, though - it doesn't care about disk sizes as > long >> as you have enough free space, doesn't care about partitions, and > is >> simpler in many cases. If you boot up to the fixit image from an >> install CD you can partition and newfs to however you like and > then >> untar. > > > Hmmm... Could you tell me more about how the fixit images work? I've > never had to do that... basically, I just need something that will > allow me to boot up into single user mode. I've been using the > source > disk in single user mode, and doing a mount -u / to make sure that > it is mounted read only. Before I go this route, I'm thinking it > might be wise to give "dump" another try from a working boot CD. > What > is the best way to create myself a boot CD that I can use to boot up > in single user mode? > > As far as your tar idea, the idea seems great, although I'm not sure > whether I have enough space to store both the tarball and the space > needed to extract the tarball to. We are talking over a 100 gig > here. > > > Thanks for your advice! > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org"