Re: g4u option
Le Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:00:56 -0500, "Jean-Paul Natola" 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 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
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:00:56 -0500, "Jean-Paul Natola" 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"
