Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 10:06:51 -0500 From: Ford Prefect <fordp@guide.chi.il.us> To: Mark <maxiter@inetu.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Duplicating Hard Drives Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.20000410100651.00e0f0f4@pop.interaccess.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004101053280.8822-100000@norad.inetu.net>
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If the new drive happens to be identical to the old one you could use the dd command. something like dd if=/dev/rda0 of=/dev/rda1 should work.... (or whatever the raw devices you have are) Of course if they aren't identical I'd imagine you might make quite a mess of things that way. At 11:05 AM 4/10/00 -0400, you wrote: > >A question about duplicating content from one hard drive to the next... > >Let's say that we have a hard drive which looks like it's getting ready to >fail. Being proactive, we'd like to replace the hard drive before it >actually becomes unusable. :) > >In the past, I've added extra hard drives to FreeBSD 2.2.8, 3.2, and 3.4 >systems without any trouble. I've moved the content from one partition to >another (IE., from /usr on drive 0 to the new /usr partition on drive 1). >That much isn't a problem. > >The heart of my question is this: After I put in the second hard drive >and move all the content over, how do I get the necessary boot sector >programs in place where they should be? As the first (failing) hard drive >needs to come out, the second must boot as the first did. > >Suggestions? > > > >Thanks! > > >--------------------------------------------------- >Mark Rekai - INetU, Inc.(tm) - http://www.INetU.net >Electronic commerce - Web development - Web hosting > Mark@INetU.net - Phone: (610) 266-7441 > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > *=====================================================* \ Ford Prefect Ahead of my time. \ \ fordp@guide.chi.il.us but only by a week. \ \ homepage.interaccess.com/~fordp \ \ \ \ ((In esperanto where available)) \ *=====================================================* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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