resize and backup partitions?

[Andrew L. Gould]

On Friday 23 July 2004 01:09 pm, JJB wrote:
> I use the current version of Symantec ghost on all my FreeBSD
> systems and it works just fine. Older versions of ghost could not
> compress FreeBSD's unused space, but that has been corrected in the
> most current version of ghost.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of
> Ara at Avvali.COM
> Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 11:38 PM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: resize and backup partitions?
>
> Hi
> does anybody know if there is a program like symantec ghost so i can
> back up and duplicate ufs file system disks and slices for recovery
> and
> easy duplicating?? I looked at recuse CD  but it says ufs is still
> in
> test
> also is there any program for resizing slices and partition ? i
> looked
> on ports but found nothing
> thank you for help

Another option is g4u (ghost for unix), which is a free, bootable image 
-- floppy or cdrom.   You can get more information at:

	http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/

Best of luck,

Andrew Gould