Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:22:54 +0100 From: Jan Henrik Sylvester <me@janh.de> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: Xn Nooby <xnooby@gmail.com>, questions-list freebsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system? Message-ID: <4D5AA85E.6070807@janh.de> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1102150820500.15948@wonkity.com> References: <AANLkTinaPn50-vUigoj_d=optGqxj4NDFoN9=RvTxcpX@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1102150820500.15948@wonkity.com>
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On 01/-10/-28163 20:59, Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Xn Nooby wrote: > >> On Linux I use clonezilla, which understands the EXT3 filesystem, and >> it can skip unused space (I'm using about 3GB out of 1TB). >> >> On FreeBSD, I have to fill the 1TB drive with zero-filled files, then >> delete them, on each partiton, since CloneZilla uses DD+gzip on the >> entire drive. > > Some of the development versions of Clonezilla do understand UFS. It's > been a few months since I looked at this, and I need to go back and > figure out exactly which. I tried a version of Clonezilla that understood ufs and it was really fast copying a slice: It did not understand disklabels and copied only the a partition pretending that it did the entire slice. Did you try to copy a slice with multiple partitions? Cheers, Jan Henrik
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