Re: Fw: dd - cloning a disk. Second Part!

2006-03-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Sorry, I forgpt to add this, I the answer is yes to the first question (original question), then, what happens if one 'dd's a small, say 36 GM disk to a larger one, say 73 GB. Can the newly made disk be resized so as not to loose 1/2 of it? yes - with growisofs and disklabel i actually did t

Re: Fw: dd - cloning a disk. Second Part!

2006-03-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
Grant Peel wrote: > I was kinda thinkning Dump and Restore might be the way to go. > > I have never tried to use it to make a bootable disk though...does it do > it automaticly or should I read something? (What)? See the nice FAQ entry: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.

Re: Fw: dd - cloning a disk. Second Part!

2006-03-11 Thread Grant Peel
AIL PROTECTED]> To: "Grant Peel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "freebsd-questions" Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 9:39 AM Subject: Re: Fw: dd - cloning a disk. Second Part! Grant Peel wrote: I the answer is yes to the first question (original question), then, what happens

Re: Fw: dd - cloning a disk. Second Part!

2006-03-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
Grant Peel wrote: > I the answer is yes to the first question (original question), then, > what happens if one 'dd's a small, say 36 GM disk to a larger one, say > 73 GB. Can the newly made disk be resized so as not to loose 1/2 of it? If you partition the bigger disk into two fdisk partitions, on

Fw: dd - cloning a disk. Second Part!

2006-03-11 Thread Grant Peel
Sorry, I forgpt to add this, I the answer is yes to the first question (original question), then, what happens if one 'dd's a small, say 36 GM disk to a larger one, say 73 GB. Can the newly made disk be resized so as not to loose 1/2 of it? -GRant - Original Message - From: "Grant