Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 09:55:27 -0700 From: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: jacks@sage-american.com Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using dd to clone HD Message-ID: <200202101655.g1AGtSD4014807@fedde.littleton.co.us> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020210075653.0195ca18@mail.sage-american.com>
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On Sun, 10 Feb 2002 07:56:53 -0600 jacks@sage-american.com wrote:
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| Thanks for the reply. I went ahead and tried the 'dd' approach using two
| identical 10GB HDs on an experimental box where I wasn't concerned about
| the result just to see what would happen. After more than two hours of
| copying, I decided to abort the process because 10GB is a pretty small HD
| and it would be a very long process to use on the bigger HDs.
|
| Of course the abort trashed the 2nd HD but fixed it with FDISK. Back to the
| drawing board, perhaps with some of your other suggestions. I already use
| tar....
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using DD to clone disk drives has the advantage that it does not depend on
the drive archetecture. It has the disadvantage that it copys every byte
on the disk.
An approach that combines disklabel, newfs and dump can work well.
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Chris Fedde
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