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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!garnet.bmr.gov.au!como.dpie.gov.au!news.gan.net.au!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Cloning A FreeBSD System Disk Date: 26 Mar 1996 19:22:34 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4j9g5q$e3j@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4j22q7$rqn@mippet.ci.com.au> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 Phill Glasson <pglasson@albury.net.au> writes: > I have a 2.0.5 installation on a 991Mb Maxtor. I want to clone my > machine onto a 2.1Gb Conner pft2105s. I have been looking through the > man page for disklabel and have not been able to succesfully lable the > disk. > > The Conner scsi drive has a variable number of sectors per track (67-139) > which seems to be causing all kinds of wierd problems. It does not :) -- almost all newer disks do have a variable number of sectors per track, but nobody cares. If you're looking for a BSD only disk (``dangerously dedicated''), it might be the easiest way for you to do the following: get the sources for /usr/src/sbin/disklabel from FreeBSD-current, run ``disklabel -Brw sd1 auto'' (expect one warning about an ``Invalid partition table, no magic.''), run ``disklabel -e sd1'' to setup your partitions, newfs all file systems, copy their contents with dump|restore, tar|tar, or cpio -p. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)