From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 4 21:02:59 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC3801065675 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2008 21:02:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl [IPv6:2001:4070:101:2::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F121F8FC18 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2008 21:02:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id mB4L2c8b055843; Thu, 4 Dec 2008 22:02:38 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from localhost (wojtek@localhost) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id mB4L2bJZ055840; Thu, 4 Dec 2008 22:02:37 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 22:02:37 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar To: Jean-Paul Natola In-Reply-To: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E9015E400A@www.fcimail.org> Message-ID: <20081204220153.D55839@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E9015E400A@www.fcimail.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: G4U inquiry 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: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:02:59 -0000 > I have a bsd box with a 12 gig drive- I'm going to get a new drive (larger) > to replace it as it is quite old and slow - > > My question is when I clone it with g4u where will the extra space go why not simply partition new drive and copy everything? or use dd and then correct partiiton table unix has tools for this, much simpler much better and included ;)