From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 12 13:18:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bogslab.ucdavis.edu (bogslab.ucdavis.edu [169.237.68.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DF6E14C57 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 13:18:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from greg@bogslab.ucdavis.edu) Received: from deal1.bogs.org (deal1.bogs.org [198.137.203.51]) by bogslab.ucdavis.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA23274 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 13:17:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from deal1.bogs.org (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by deal1.bogs.org (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id NAA04579 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 13:17:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199907122017.NAA04579@deal1.bogs.org> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-To: "Crist J. Clark" X-Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it possible to clone a hard disk? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 12 Jul 1999 14:23:28 EDT." <199907121823.OAA24661@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 13:17:33 -0700 From: Greg Shenaut Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <199907121823.OAA24661@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>, "Crist J. Clark" cleopede: >Some people may recommend doing a dd(1) right from one disk to >another, but I would only recommend it if you _really_ know what you >are doing. The best circumstance in which to use dd to clone a whole disk is when the destination drive is exactly the same model (in terms of heads, cylinders, sectors) as the source drive. I always try to buy disks in batches so that I can configure a system to my taste and dd the result to the other disks. With a little light editing of rc.conf, these clones are then ready to go. (I ordinarily use a tape as an intermediary, but it's the same principle.) -Greg Shenaut To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message