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Subject: RE: resize and backup partitions?
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I didn't know ghost supports UFS, lol, also thanks for g4u, will give a
try

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: resize and backup partitions?
> From: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com>
> Date: Fri, July 23, 2004 11:13 am
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Barbish3@adelphia.net
> Cc: Ara@Avvali.COM
>
> On Friday 23 July 2004 01:09 pm, JJB wrote:
> > I use the current version of Symantec ghost on all my FreeBSD
> > systems and it works just fine. Older versions of ghost could not
> > compress FreeBSD's unused space, but that has been corrected in the
> > most current version of ghost.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of
> > Ara@Avvali.COM
> > Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 11:38 PM
> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > Subject: resize and backup partitions?
> >
> > Hi
> > does anybody know if there is a program like symantec ghost so i can
> > back up and duplicate ufs file system disks and slices for recovery
> > and
> > easy duplicating?? I looked at recuse CD  but it says ufs is still
> > in
> > test
> > also is there any program for resizing slices and partition ? i
> > looked
> > on ports but found nothing
> > thank you for help
>
> Another option is g4u (ghost for unix), which is a free, bootable image
> -- floppy or cdrom.   You can get more information at:
>
> 	http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/
>
> Best of luck,
>
> Andrew Gould