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Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 19:45:03 +0300
From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@gmail.com>
To: "Mike Jeays" <mj001@rogers.com>
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Subject: Re: dd - cloning a disk.
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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.