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Date:      30 Sep 2001 15:22:25 +0100
From:      Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@ehsrealtime.com>
To:        "Mario Doria" <madd@tecdigital.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Copy a disk using dd
Message-ID:  <86wv2gpxlq.fsf@pan.home.penguinpowered.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <002f01c14947$ac9a8d00$0a00a8c0@midgar>
References:  <002f01c14947$ac9a8d00$0a00a8c0@midgar>

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"Mario Doria" <madd@tecdigital.net> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> On some machine with 2 identical disks, I want to copy everything on the
> first drive to the second drive (mirror copy). The disks are da0 and da1.
> I'm thinking of using:
> 
> dd if=/dev/da0 of=/dev/da1 bs=8192
> 
> Is this OK?
> 
> The purpose of this is to later remove the second hard disk, and use it on
> another machine (like installing using Norton's Ghost). Both machines are
> identical, I just don't want to do two separate installations.

Sounds ok to me. 

-- 
Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@ehsrealtime.com>

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. - Yeats

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