Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 01:23:10 +0300 From: "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Emmanuel Gravel <egravel@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ghost prog for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20000910222310.7057.qmail@localhost.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <200009102210.PAA14783@scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net>; from egravel@earthlink.net on Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 03:08:03PM -0700 References: <39BAB976.C53CBB30@mediaone.net> <39BAB976.C53CBB30@mediaone.net> <20000910223442.F274@hades.hell.gr> <200009102210.PAA14783@scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net>
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On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 03:08:03PM -0700, Emmanuel Gravel wrote: > At 10:34 PM 9/10/00 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > >1. Create the slices / labels on the second disk. > >2. Mount them under /mnt. > >3. Use cpio(1) to copy the files from / to /mnt. > >4. Use boot0cfg on the new disk to set up the boot loader on it. > >5. Reboot into the new installation. > > Wouldn't a dd of the whole disk to another, same-sized disk, pretty > much do the same thing though? Something to the order of > > dd if=/dev/wd0 of=/dev/wd1 bs=1024 > > should do the trick, no? Probably yes, but when I moved my FreeBSD 4.1-S installation to the machine at work, I had my /, /var, /home and /usr partitions with different sizes. The disk that I installed BSD at home and configured most of the details in it was 6 Gb, but the destination disk was a 9 Gb disk. I'm almost sure that using dd(1) will also be slower, on a relatively empty partition, since cpio(1) will not copy those areas of the disk that are not used for data. That work is easier and a lot safer to do with newfs anyway :-) - giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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