On 3/12/06, Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have done this 'safely', by booting Knoppix, and using dd to copy the
> disk in the knowledge that all the UFS filesystems are closed and clean.
> Use a large blocksize; you can go a lot bigger than 64K.
Single-user mode is more than enough and
On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 16:53 +0300, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> On 3/12/06, Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > It is, with a few 'buts'. Firstly, the source should be mounted
> >
> > but may not - unless system is generally idle. fsck will be checking the
> > copy then, but with s
On 3/12/06, Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > It is, with a few 'buts'. Firstly, the source should be mounted
>
> but may not - unless system is generally idle. fsck will be checking the
> copy then, but with success.
No matter what fsck says later, it's too dangerous. A FreeBSD
s
list sometime in the last 3-5 weeks. Giorgios Keramidas
commented that "dd" was too slow for his tastes and
dd is the fastest, but probably he used small block size. 64K is OK
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At 03:29 PM 3/11/2006, Joseph Vella wrote:
On Saturday 11 March 2006 14:43, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >
> > Here is a simple (I think!) question for the I/O savy among you:
> >
> > If I had two identical disks, say, 73 GB Seagate 10K SCSIs, one
completely
> > operational fully setup FreeBSD with
Grant Peel wrote:
Hi all,
Here is a simple (I think!) question for the I/O savy among you:
If I had two identical disks, say, 73 GB Seagate 10K SCSIs, one
completely
operational fully setup FreeBSD with all the trimmings, and the other
blank,
or perhaps loaded but no longer usable, is 'dd'
On Saturday 11 March 2006 14:43, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >
> > Here is a simple (I think!) question for the I/O savy among you:
> >
> > If I had two identical disks, say, 73 GB Seagate 10K SCSIs, one completely
> > operational fully setup FreeBSD with all the trimmings, and the other
blank,
> >
It is, with a few 'buts'. Firstly, the source should be mounted
but may not - unless system is generally idle. fsck will be checking the
copy then, but with success.
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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
Here is a simple (I think!) question for the I/O savy among you:
If I had two identical disks, say, 73 GB Seagate 10K SCSIs, one completely
operational fully setup FreeBSD with all the trimmings, and the other blank,
or perhaps loaded but no longer usable, is 'dd' and appropriate tool to
comp
On 3/11/06, Grant Peel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Here is a simple (I think!) question for the I/O savy among you:
>
> If I had two identical disks, say, 73 GB Seagate 10K SCSIs, one completely
> operational fully setup FreeBSD with all the trimmings, and the other blank,
> or perhaps
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.
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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
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
om: "Grant Peel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 9:25 AM
Subject: dd - cloning a disk.
Hi all,
Here is a simple (I think!) question for the I/O savy among you:
If I had two identical disks, say, 73 GB Seagate 10K SCSIs, one completely
operational fully
Hi all,
Here is a simple (I think!) question for the I/O savy among you:
If I had two identical disks, say, 73 GB Seagate 10K SCSIs, one completely
operational fully setup FreeBSD with all the trimmings, and the other blank,
or perhaps loaded but no longer usable, is 'dd' and appropriate tool
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