Re: Cloning a disk -large to small
On 04/03/07, Warren Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Grant Peel wrote: > I have been researching the use of 'dd' quite a bit lately as I have > had to clone a newly setup server. dump/restore is generally a better solution for cloning drives. On large drives, dd wastes a lot of time copying empty sectors. Also, your disk label would be wrong, albeit correctable, though by that time, you may as well have just manually redone it. -- -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Cloning a disk -large to small
On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Grant Peel wrote: I have been researching the use of 'dd' quite a bit lately as I have had to clone a newly setup server. dump/restore is generally a better solution for cloning drives. On large drives, dd wastes a lot of time copying empty sectors. I was wondering though, if one had a newly setup disk on a 74 GB SCSI dirve, is there some know turning that can be done to clone it to a smaller drive? Say 36 GB? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK Using dump works for going from large to small partitions, too, as long as the small partition is big enough to hold all the data. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
