[buug] disk clone

[f.johan.beisser]

On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, allen shao wrote:

> I am trying to clone a solaris system disk from a
> biger IDE drive to a smaller one on X86 platform. I
> tried twice, failed. Any one can give me some advice.
> I appreciate it.

use dump and restore, that's about the only way to do it in any UNIX OS,
short of reinstalling.

you may want to consider using tar, but that won't preserve device files
(i believe..). otherwise, reinstall on to the smaller drive, and move
things over after the install.

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