On 03/14/18 21:08, Tinker wrote: > Say you have an OpenBSD installation (with /dev and all) mounted on > /mnt , and you'd like to clone it to /mnt2 , which is a partition > of different size, so dd is not an option.
Not necessarily true. If the source is smaller than the destination, you can still image it with "dd", rsdXc partition to rsdXc partition. You can then use "growfs" to expand the last partition -- if you planned it right, your last partition is the one that needs the most space. You can also dd over individual partitions. Create a new 'a' partition, copy over the 'a' partition (/dev/rsdXa) first, now make a /new/ disk label (that's stored in the 'a' partition, so copying over 'a' blew your old one away -- order here is kinda important), make all the new partitions the size you want them to be, then dd them over from the source to the dest, then growfs each of them to fluff them out to the size you got. Not saying it's the best way to do things, but it's educational. :) Nick.
