On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Daniel Ouellet <dan...@presscom.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I am pretty sure this is not possible at all, but again, may be > something else is available that I haven't found/think yet. > > Two questions I have. > (snip)
> 2. The second question again relate to this is I also have the needs > to replace with bigger drives now and this is on Solaris with plenty > of hard and symbolic links and on system that include installations > of software at the company that run proprietary software and really do > not provide details sadly. So far I always take care of drives that > may be flaky by simply booting an OpenBSD live CD and use DD to mirror > the SCSI drive in it, remove the old, put the new one in and be done > with it. I do that to keep drive in best shape and be sure it doesn't > crash on me. Or provide me better chance not to anyway. > But now, I would really need to use bigger drives and dd is great fro > identical drives, however doesn't really do a good job for different > size obviously. Dump and restore might be a better choice here. You can always use dd to get the MBR copied, edit with fdisk and disklabel to rightsize, and then: dump -f - /dev/sd0a | ssh target_address restore -f - /dev/sd0a or something like that. -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL
