From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 15 22:12:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA04270 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 22:12:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from virginia.edu (mars.itc.Virginia.EDU [128.143.2.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA04259 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 22:12:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from archive.cs.virginia.edu by mail.virginia.edu id aa25487; 15 Feb 96 22:39 EST Received: from stretch.cs.Virginia.edu (atf3r@stretch-fo.cs.Virginia.EDU [128.143.136.14]) by archive.cs.Virginia.EDU (8.7.1/8.6.6) with SMTP id WAA17226 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 22:39:48 -0500 (EST) Received: by stretch.cs.Virginia.edu (4.1/SMI-2.0) id AA17399; Thu, 15 Feb 96 22:39:46 EST Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 22:39:45 -0500 (EST) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" Reply-To: adrian@virginia.edu To: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: mirroring my root partition? Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi everyone, I set aside an alternate partition of exactly the same size on one of my non-boot disks with the intention of using it as a mirror of my root partition. I now have the space, but when I try using dd to copy either the sd0a or the rsda0 devices to the mirror partition, I get warnings about wither the first being "in use" or the second being a read-only file system. What I am I missing? For now I am using tar, but I'd prefer to use dd to get a more exact and quicker copy made. thanks, Adrian System Administrator for the NVL, NIIMS and Telemedicine labs adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| Support your local programmer, http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~atf3r/ --->>>| STOP Software Patent Abuses NOW! Member: The League for -->>| For an application and information Programming Freedom ->| see: http://www.lpf.org/