Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2016 11:19:51 -0400 From: Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Clone a FBSD system to a smaller disk. Message-ID: <57F3C897.2020600@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20161004170942.8875cd6a.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <CAHieY7TSESodQXBLoZkkBGWZaCbEZessqiMvzp9dR8Y1CoAZtw@mail.gmail.com> <57EC9527.7020202@rcn.com> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1609282305130.7457@wonkity.com> <CAHieY7QV3xYPsNxXdZrYCGO7SA37Mxn_yy2njByR2EBd9DzX9A@mail.gmail.com> <CAN2YBg6qUBXd8qy25zT5FNe9LkyY=x3po1H3UoD1Y2fDxrBvQw@mail.gmail.com> <57F3B40B.2080804@gmail.com> <20161004170942.8875cd6a.freebsd@edvax.de>
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Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 04 Oct 2016 09:52:11 -0400, Ernie Luzar wrote: >> I have a 10.3 box using a MBR 1.5 TB hard drive. This Box acts as the >> LANs front door firewall to the public network. The 1.5 TB disk is being >> waisted in this situation. What would you recommend as the quickest >> method to clone the running system from the 1.5TB disk to a 40MB disk? > > Preparing the target disk with MBR or GPT or Dedicated (use GPT > except you have a good reason not to), then use dump + restore. > You can find more information here: > > http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html#_the_new_standard_gpt > > http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/backup.html#_copying_filesystems > > The advantage of dump | restore is that only blocks in use will > be copied, and it works on file system level (instead of disk > block level like dd). Initializing the target disk prior to > starting the copy operation will make sure the partition data > is being written to the correct places. > > Thanks for your quick reply. I would like to do the same thing with a win7 disk as source. But on my 10.3 and 11.0-rc2 systems the mount_ntfs command is missing. How do I mount a win7 disk in read mode so I can back it up?
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