From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 10 8:57:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from moek.pir.net (moek.pir.net [209.192.237.190]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 919E337B9C8 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 08:57:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pir@pir.net) Received: from pir by moek.pir.net with local (Exim) id 12TSij-00013w-00 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 11:57:01 -0500 Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 11:57:00 -0500 From: 'Peter Radcliffe' To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk cloning Message-ID: <20000310115700.C2584@pir.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <212CC57E84B8D111AD780000F84AA049083C2D0E@mroexc2.tay.dec.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <212CC57E84B8D111AD780000F84AA049083C2D0E@mroexc2.tay.dec.com>; from Michael.Waite@compaq.com on Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 11:50:56AM -0500 X-fish: < X-Copy-On-Listmail: Please do NOT Cc: me on list mail. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Waite, Michael" probably said: > The disk is indeed showing up as da2 > now the dd shows this as the error: > da2 rwa partition size ! slice size > da2 start0, end 177773523, size bla bla bla > more bla bla bla > dd: /dev/da2 : Read-Only fuilesystem > 1+0 in > 0+0 out and on to the next problem. Disk cloning with dd is evil. Don't Do That. My recommendation is to partition the disk as you desire, newfs and mount the partitions then use cd /new/partition; dump 0f - /original/partition | restore rf - This really belongs in freebsd-questions. P. -- pir pir@pir.net pir@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message