From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Sep 27 19: 8: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from EnContacto.Net (adsl-64-173-182-158.dsl.mtry01.pacbell.net [64.173.182.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1164937B408 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 19:07:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by EnContacto.Net (8.11.6/8.11.4) id f8S27ta53180; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 19:07:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eculp@EnContacto.Net) Received: from 24.20.19.75 ( [24.20.19.75]) as user eculp@Mail.SavvyWorld.Net by Mail.SavvyWorld.Net with HTTP; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 19:07:55 -0700 Message-ID: <1001642875.3bb3db7b8c24b@Mail.SavvyWorld.Net> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 19:07:55 -0700 From: Edwin Culp To: kjerste soderberg Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cloning laptop drives References: <20010928015910.25782.qmail@web9707.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010928015910.25782.qmail@web9707.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 2.3.7-cvs X-Originating-IP: 24.20.19.75 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org AFAIK, the default for dd is one block at a time and that can take for ever. You need to define the block size to something much larger. I have seen some cool formulas based on disk geometry but I never seem to remember them when I need them.:-( You might try something like dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad1 bs=8192 Hopefully someone will give you a better number. ed Quoting kjerste soderberg : | sanity check, pls tell me if this is right | | In short; booting off of ad0 and want to clone ad1 | ad1 is blank and is IDENTICAL (SAME SIZE & GEOMETRY & | MFR ) drive as ad0 | | can I be root and do? | | dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad1 | | running FBSD 4.3-REL | | tried it and it seeems to just sit there forever, dd | never comes back, the red LED drive light lights up | and stays lit BUT no activity on it, I mean it doesn't | hang or anything & I can ctrl-C out of it but it | doesn't work?? I do top and dd isn't even there .. | | Should I drop out of multi-user into single-user | mode?? | (I gotta hit the handbook on how to do that..) or | something like that? I must be missin somethin here.. | | | Thanx for ANY & ALL help ! | | __________________________________________________ | Do You Yahoo!? | Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. | http://phone.yahoo.com | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message | --- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message