Re: g4u option
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:00:56 -0500, Jean-Paul Natola jnat...@familycareintl.org wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to figure out ,if possible, how to get g4u to only clone data, i.e. I have an 80 gig drive but my OS and applications only come to about 6gigs that’s what I want to clone to the new drive. Is there a way to accomplish this? Yes: using the proper tool for this job. :-) In case of FreeBSD, dump + restore are excellent tools for the task you seem to be describing. Refer to the mailing list archive (or the Handbook) for examples how to use it - it's quite easy. Using dump and restore involves some other tools to prepare the target disk (e. g. fdisk, bsdlabel, newfs), but everything can easily be scripted so it runs without any human interaction. Sadly, I can't answer your question about g4u because I've never heared of it, and I don't see it in the ports collection, so my anser is relatively FreeBSD-specific (but those tools are the standard tools for such jobs in nearly all UNIX and Linux environments). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: g4u option
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Jean-Paul Natola jnat...@familycareintl.org wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to figure out ,if possible, how to get g4u to only clone data, i.e. I have an 80 gig drive but my OS and applications only come to about 6gigs that’s what I want to clone to the new drive. Is there a way to accomplish this? TIA J ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org g4u does partitions so if the data is on a separate partition from the OS then yes. If everything is on one partition then you'll have to copy the whole thing with g4u ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: g4u option
Le Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:00:56 -0500, Jean-Paul Natola jnat...@familycareintl.org a écrit : I'm trying to figure out ,if possible, how to get g4u to only clone data, i.e. I have an 80 gig drive but my OS and applications only come to about 6gigs that’s what I want to clone to the new drive. Is there a way to accomplish this? g4u uses dd(1) to dump the disk or a partition, then it compresses datas with gzip. It copies *all*. You can save size by filling the filesystem of the partition with '0'. This is in the FAQ of g4u: http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/#shrinkimg g4u is based on NetBSD, not FreeBSD. Regards. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: G4U inquiry
On Thursday 04 December 2008 14:44:40 Jean-Paul Natola wrote: I have a bsd box with a 12 gig drive- I'm going to get a new drive (larger) to replace it as it is quite old and slow - My question is when I clone it with g4u where will the extra space go it's in the faq. http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/#disks 5.4 A word on disk sizes The question how g4u deals with different disk sizes arises a lot too. The general answer is, g4u works best with identical disk sizes geometry. Putting an image from a small disk on a big disk works, putting an image from a big disk to a small disk is likely to cause problems. If you cannot avoid preparing an image on a big disk that'll get deployed to a small disk later, make sure the extra space is not occupied by a active partition or filesystem, else data loss is very likely to occur! If you intend to deploy a small image to a big disk, the extra space that's not covered by g4u can be used for creating a partition and a filesystem. You will have to do that on your own, e.g. using your operating systems' post installation steps. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: G4U inquiry
I have a bsd box with a 12 gig drive- I'm going to get a new drive (larger) to replace it as it is quite old and slow - My question is when I clone it with g4u where will the extra space go why not simply partition new drive and copy everything? or use dd and then correct partiiton table unix has tools for this, much simpler much better and included ;) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: G4U inquiry
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 03:00:09PM -0600, Tyson Boellstorff wrote: On Thursday 04 December 2008 14:44:40 Jean-Paul Natola wrote: I have a bsd box with a 12 gig drive- I'm going to get a new drive (larger) to replace it as it is quite old and slow - My question is when I clone it with g4u where will the extra space go Usually you are much better off creating new [slices and] partitions with new appropriate sizes, newfs-ing the partitions to turn them in to filesystems and then copying the previous disk filesystem by filesystem to the new disk - using dump/restore.Then you will not be stuck with geometry mismatches and wasted disk space. I have posted excruciatingly detailed instructions for this sort of things about every coupld of months on this list as other have asked.A little searching should find one. If not, I can give a basic rundown. jerry it's in the faq. http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/#disks 5.4 A word on disk sizes The question how g4u deals with different disk sizes arises a lot too. The general answer is, g4u works best with identical disk sizes geometry. Putting an image from a small disk on a big disk works, putting an image from a big disk to a small disk is likely to cause problems. If you cannot avoid preparing an image on a big disk that'll get deployed to a small disk later, make sure the extra space is not occupied by a active partition or filesystem, else data loss is very likely to occur! If you intend to deploy a small image to a big disk, the extra space that's not covered by g4u can be used for creating a partition and a filesystem. You will have to do that on your own, e.g. using your operating systems' post installation steps. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: g4u and ftp
--- On Thu, 10/16/08, Jean-Paul Natola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Jean-Paul Natola [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: g4u and ftp To: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thursday, October 16, 2008, 1:41 PM Hi all, I'm having an issue trying to write to my ftp server from linux- I just setup the ftp server with read and write access anonymous login From windows explorer no-problem from the mac's no problem- but when I try to upload an image using g4u (http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/) I get rejected by the MS ftp server Im not sure why it doesn't let me any thoughts? tia Hi Jean-Paul I use G4U very much myself so I've been there G4U's defaults are reading/writing to a FTP user-account by the name of install I hope that helps you out Take care Steve Quinn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: g4u
can I use G4U to clone a 40 gig drive to a 30 gig drive, if the source drive only has 20 gigs of data? what is G4U? simply make partitions, newfs, copy files, install boot sector ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: g4u
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 3:48 AM, Jean-Paul Natola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can I use G4U to clone a 40 gig drive to a 30 gig drive, if the source drive only has 20 gigs of data? Yes! You can then create a partition on the extra space. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Oh My God! They killed init! You Bastards! --from a /. post ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: g4u
Ghost for unix http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ The drives i'm working with are windows From: Wojciech Puchar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 6/20/2008 3:57 To: Jean-Paul Natola Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: g4u can I use G4U to clone a 40 gig drive to a 30 gig drive, if the source drive only has 20 gigs of data? what is G4U? simply make partitions, newfs, copy files, install boot sector ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: g4u
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Jean-Paul Natola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can I use G4U to clone a 40 gig drive to a 30 gig drive, if the source drive only has 20 gigs of data? G4U does not work with data, it works with partitions or whole disks. If you get that concept, it will help in planning what you do with it. A partition normally has a file system which has a file access table. If you want file lookups to work properly afterwards, you need the target partition to be at least the same size as the original. I've tried to keep my answer OS agnostic as this BSD based utility is capable of doing the job for any OS. For broader hardware support, I suggest consideration of udpcast, which is Linux based. gzipped disk clone image files made from g4u are compatible with restoring the same to a new target from udpcast, in case you wondered. --Donald ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
