Re: duplicate a drive

2008-10-26 Thread RW
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 08:07:34 +0100 Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RW wrote: On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:19:23 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK The best way is to reinstall the OS on

Re: duplicate a drive

2008-10-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
RW wrote: On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:19:23 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK The best way is to reinstall the OS on the new disk, then move the user data over. This is highly recommended if you have

duplicate a drive

2008-10-24 Thread Joey Mingrone
Hi, My laptop died recently and to get back to work as quickly as possible I simply took the laptop ide drive and put it into an old desktop using a 2.5 - 3.5 ide adapter. After loading a few new drivers into the kernel everything is working quite well. The next thing I've tried to do, without

Re: duplicate a drive

2008-10-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 01:29:18PM -0300, Joey Mingrone wrote: Hi, My laptop died recently and to get back to work as quickly as possible I simply took the laptop ide drive and put it into an old desktop using a 2.5 - 3.5 ide adapter. After loading a few new drivers into the kernel

Re: duplicate a drive

2008-10-24 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Joey Mingrone wrote: The next thing I've tried to do, without success, is mirror the contents of the 2.5 drive to a 3.5 drive in the desktop. The 2.5 drive is sliced/partitioned like this: Filesystem SizeMounted on /dev/ad0s2a 989M / /dev/ad0s2d 989M

Re: duplicate a drive

2008-10-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 01:29:18PM -0300, Joey Mingrone wrote: Hi, My laptop died recently and to get back to work as quickly as possible I simply took the laptop ide drive and put it into an old desktop using a 2.5 - 3.5 ide adapter. After loading a few new drivers into the kernel

Re: duplicate a drive

2008-10-24 Thread RW
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:19:23 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK The best way is to reinstall the OS on the new disk, then move the user data over. This is highly recommended if you have been tracking

Re: How do you duplicate a drive?

2004-10-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
I have a RAID mirror (2x 160GB) which I would like to back up onto a spare 160GB drive. I do not have a hot-swap caddy so I was planning on powering down the system to get the backup drive in and out. But once I have the new blank drive in, what is the best way to duplicate the

How do you duplicate a drive?

2004-10-01 Thread Matt Staroscik
I have a RAID mirror (2x 160GB) which I would like to back up onto a spare 160GB drive. I do not have a hot-swap caddy so I was planning on powering down the system to get the backup drive in and out. But once I have the new blank drive in, what is the best way to duplicate the RAID? Ideally

Re: How do you duplicate a drive?

2004-10-01 Thread Steve Bertrand
I have a RAID mirror (2x 160GB) which I would like to back up onto a spare 160GB drive. I do not have a hot-swap caddy so I was planning on powering down the system to get the backup drive in and out. But once I have the new blank drive in, what is the best way to duplicate the RAID?

Re: How do you duplicate a drive?

2004-10-01 Thread knowtree
I have a RAID mirror (2x 160GB) which I would like to back up onto a spare 160GB drive. I do not have a hot-swap caddy so I was planning on powering down the system to get the backup drive in and out. But once I have the new blank drive in, what is the best way to duplicate the

Re: How do you duplicate a drive?

2004-10-01 Thread Remko Lodder
Matt Staroscik wrote: I have a RAID mirror (2x 160GB) which I would like to back up onto a spare 160GB drive. I do not have a hot-swap caddy so I was planning on powering down the system to get the backup drive in and out. But once I have the new blank drive in, what is the best way to