Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:23:37 -0800 (PST) From: Steve Quinn <letter2steve@yahoo.com> To: Joe Auty <joe@netmusician.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: best approach to clone a disk? Message-ID: <20060215222337.6717.qmail@web51406.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <2DEE7242-F283-4C35-85B4-99847DE989A6@netmusician.org>
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--- Joe Auty <joe@netmusician.org> wrote: > > It sort of helps, but sort of doesn't at the same time. I've tried > the dump command from the script using the correct slices, and still > had that kernel panic. I figured that using the Freesbie CD might be > a way of testing whether my install on my master/source drive was > somehow messed up, but I haven't gone very far with that (dump > reports "unsupported file system" errors). > > I've also looked at growfs, but I'm not entirely sure how to handle > the prequisite to using it which is using bsdlabel. It seems that > running bsdlabel within /stand/sysinstall doesn't recognize the free > space, so I can't create a new partition map that reflects this free > space. I'll keep working at it though... > > > Thanks for your help! > Hi Joe I didnt want to confuse you by adding the fact that dump/restore also eliminated the need to worry about empty blocks but I'm glad Jerry mentioned it. Thanks Jerry I hope that you have a better handle on this now Joe I'd be interested in seeing your /etc/fstab and script just to see if it's a simple typo or something. Take care Steve __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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