From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 21 21:38:27 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 013E916A4BF for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2003 21:38:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pop018.verizon.net (pop018pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22F9C43FD7 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2003 21:38:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dvelez502@verizon.net) Received: from verizon.net ([162.83.135.4]) by pop018.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20030822043824.XUQE11703.pop018.verizon.net@verizon.net> for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2003 23:38:24 -0500 Message-ID: <3F459D0C.1060203@verizon.net> Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 00:33:16 -0400 From: D Velez User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at pop018.verizon.net from [162.83.135.4] at Thu, 21 Aug 2003 23:38:24 -0500 Subject: about using dd command to copy hard drives X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 04:38:27 -0000 I'm using freebsd 5.0 Jan 2003 series I know that dd is good at copying block devices when they are at identical sizes. But if they're different sizes will it copy correctly? I want to copy my entire freebsd hard disk which is 6 GB to a new hard disk at 20 GB. I read the man pages but still can't understand it. I'm only a user not a programmer nor sys admin. If you have any comments or suggestions, I would surely appreciate it. Thanks David