From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 29 12:48:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5FF437B401 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:48:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from casper.sri.com (casper.SRI.COM [128.18.243.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3A6BF43E3B for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:48:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hogsett@csl.sri.com) Received: (qmail 2190 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2002 20:52:09 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO casper.SRI.COM) (127.0.0.1) by casper.sri.com with SMTP; 29 Oct 2002 20:52:09 -0000 Received: from quarter.csl.sri.com ([130.107.1.30]) by casper.SRI.COM (NAVGW 2.5.2.17) with SMTP id M2002102912520827816 ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:52:08 -0800 Received: from axp.csl.sri.com (axp.csl.sri.com [130.107.2.30]) by quarter.csl.sri.com (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g9TKmHnr018539; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:48:17 -0800 Received: from axp.csl.sri.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by axp.csl.sri.com (8.12.6/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g9TKmG1J015723; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:48:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hogsett@axp.csl.sri.com) Message-Id: <200210292048.g9TKmG1J015723@axp.csl.sri.com> To: "Mr. Darren" Cc: freebsd Subject: Re: copy harddrive image In-Reply-To: Message from "Mr. Darren" of "Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:38:32 PST." <20021029203832.51573.qmail@web40710.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 8.8 (Time Passed Me By)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:48:16 -0800 From: Mike Hogsett Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have had a harddrive which is doing the SMART imminent failure thing > for the last little while. I had western digital send me a new drive so > I could copy all my data over. I am wondering what the best way to do > this is? "dd if=ad0 of=ad1" doesn't seem to be like a good method.. > any input? That method has worked great for me in the past. But I have usually done this with brand new disks (source being freshly installed). Also no partitions on either disk were mounted. I would add the argument bs=131072 - Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message