Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 09:51:03 -0500 From: "Grant Peel" <gpeel@thenetnow.com> To: "Chuck Swiger" <cswiger@mac.com>, "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Fw: dd - cloning a disk. Second Part! Message-ID: <000801c6451b$3b700b30$6701a8c0@GRANT> References: <001e01c64518$3df70b90$6701a8c0@GRANT> <4412E108.9020902@mac.com>
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Thanks Chuck, I was kinda thinkning Dump and Restore might be the way to go. I have never tried to use it to make a bootable disk though...does it do it automaticly or should I read something? (What)? Thanks again, -Grant ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Swiger" <cswiger@mac.com> To: "Grant Peel" <gpeel@thenetnow.com>; "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 9:39 AM Subject: Re: Fw: dd - cloning a disk. Second Part! > Grant Peel wrote: >> I the answer is yes to the first question (original question), then, >> what happens if one 'dd's a small, say 36 GM disk to a larger one, say >> 73 GB. Can the newly made disk be resized so as not to loose 1/2 of it? > > If you partition the bigger disk into two fdisk partitions, one of which > is > exactly the size of your original disk, you could use dd to copy the > contents of > the BSD slice from one disk to the other, and then use newfs to create a > separate filesystem on the second fdisk partition. > > However, if you want to use the entire 73GB space at once, use dump and > restore > to copy the data instead. There's detailed documentation on this on the > FreeBSD > website... > > -- > -Chuck >
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