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Date:      Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:28:26 +0300
From:      "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@westgate.gr>
To:        nathan <beemern@telecom.ksu.edu>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: imaging /dev/ad*
Message-ID:  <20001013072826.40429.qmail@gray.westgate.gr>
In-Reply-To: <39E6097B.AA15367@telecom.ksu.edu>; from beemern@telecom.ksu.edu on Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 01:56:59PM -0500
References:  <39E6097B.AA15367@telecom.ksu.edu>

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On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 01:56:59PM -0500, nathan wrote:
> i have a full 3 gig harddrive and i wanna put in a 15 gig to replace it
> the 3 gig is dedicated to /usr only, and after moving the data over to
> the new 15 gig, i'm gonna remove it permanantly. i wanna make 8 gig
> outta the new 15 for /usr
> 
> can i just do this after putting in the 15 gig?
> 
> dd if=/dev/ad1 of=/dev/ad0 bs=8568
> 
> or should i create slices first THEN use dd??
> also.. if this DOES work.. does the source and dest devices have to be
> the same size?

You can't use dd(1) for copying data on partitions that have different
sizes.  For this you should use tar, or cpio, or even dump/restore.

-- 
Giorgos Keramidas, <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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