"dd" question

Paul Chvostek paul+fbsd at it.ca
Thu May 4 14:16:21 UTC 2006


On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 05:36:46PM -0500, Andrew wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 14:11 -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
> >  Can I used dd from my freebsd box to  
> > completely copy the whole disk, partition tables and all, to another  
> > disk?
...
> have another suggestion. If you think the disk will be ok, use dd to
> "zero-out" the rest of the drive; i.e.
...
> One of these days, I am going to write a tool to do just this sort of
> thing, since it seems to be a fairly common practice.

I believe that tool would be g4u, http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/, along with
the FAQ at http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/#shrinkimg .

p

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  Paul Chvostek                                             <paul at it.ca>
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