From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 24 18:19:25 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 237A51065681 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:19:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7D118FC20 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:19:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m9OIJNrR014180; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:19:23 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) with ESMTP id m9OIJN9p014177; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:19:23 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:19:23 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Joey Mingrone In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:19:24 -0600 (MDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: duplicate a drive 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: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:19:25 -0000 On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Joey Mingrone wrote: > The next thing I've tried to do, without success, is mirror the > contents of the 2.5" drive to a 3.5" drive in the desktop. > > The 2.5" drive is sliced/partitioned like this: > > Filesystem Size Mounted on > /dev/ad0s2a 989M / > /dev/ad0s2d 989M /tmp > /dev/ad0s2f 59G /usr > /dev/ad0s2e 989M /var > > ad0s1 is a 20GB slice that I have window installed on. > > The drive's total capacity is 80G. > > The 3.5" drive is only 70G so I'll have to skip the ad0s1 slice. > Ideally what I'd like to do is copy everything from the ad0s2 slice to > the 3.5" and run the OS off that drive. Then, each dump the contents > of the 3.5" drive to the 2.5" drive. That way if either drive dies > I'll, hopefully at worst, just have to switch which drive I boot from. > > Can anyone with experience doing something this make suggestions? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA