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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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