Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 12:49:06 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Consultant <consult9@bellsouth.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cloning a hard drive Message-ID: <20000504124906.G22025@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <001a01bfb577$1a4f3f00$7ada4dd8@emerald> References: <001a01bfb577$1a4f3f00$7ada4dd8@emerald>
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On Wednesday, 3 May 2000 at 23:16:13 -0400, Consultant wrote: > I have a hard drive with 3.4 installed on it and I do not what to change the > configuration so I would just like to be able ot clone this hard drive to an > new drive, what is the simplest way to go about this process. Use dd. If your drive is /dev/da2, and you want to copy it to /dev/da3, do: # disklabel -W /dev/rda3c # dd if=/dev/rda2c of=/dev/rda3c bs=128b The disklabel is necessary to make the label portion of the disk writable; otherwise your copy will fail with "Read only file system". Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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