From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 29 22:40:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA15434 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:40:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rucus.ru.ac.za (rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.29.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA15420 for ; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:40:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 14788 invoked by uid 1003); 30 Aug 1998 05:39:50 -0000 Message-ID: <19980830073950.A14260@rucus.ru.ac.za> Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 07:39:50 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Shawn Ramsey , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: duplicate hard drive References: <19980829221948.44568@cpl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19980829221948.44568@cpl.net>; from Shawn Ramsey on Sat, Aug 29, 1998 at 10:19:48PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat 1998-08-29 (22:19), Shawn Ramsey wrote: > I need to replace the boot drive on one of our servers... Is possible to > easily make a duplicate copy(boot manager and all) ?? I recall this being > discussed awhile back, but I dont remember the thread and can't seem to find > it in the archives... If they're _exactly_ the same drives, you can use dd. dd if=/dev/wd0 of=/dev/wd1 (from wd0 to wd1) You can set a blocksize too, but dd usually chooses a considerate setting. Rather don't do this while either drive is mounted, which means doing it from a floppy install, probably, else putting both drives in another machine. If they're not the same drives, there are other ways of doing things, which other people will be able to explain better than I. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message