Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 19:45:03 +0300 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@gmail.com> To: "Mike Jeays" <mj001@rogers.com> Cc: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Grant Peel <gpeel@thenetnow.com> Subject: Re: dd - cloning a disk. Message-ID: <cb5206420603120845k12a1defducb08cd5396b4a638@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1142179562.2093.85.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> References: <001901c64517$9d891950$6701a8c0@GRANT> <44138FC9.30900@daleco.biz> <20060312105141.K18712@chylonia.3miasto.net> <cb5206420603120553y4c69ff5cx293539bbf1ad4251@mail.gmail.com> <1142179562.2093.85.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca>
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On 3/12/06, Mike Jeays <mj001@rogers.com> wrote: > I have done this 'safely', by booting Knoppix, and using dd to copy the > disk in the knowledge that all the UFS filesystems are closed and clean. > Use a large blocksize; you can go a lot bigger than 64K. Single-user mode is more than enough and arguably less hassle-free.
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