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Date:      Wed, 30 Oct 2002 19:26:29 +0100
From:      Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        jackstone@sage-one.net, hogsett@csl.sri.com, darren780@yahoo.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: copy harddrive image
Message-ID:  <20021030192629.7b099736.steve@sohara.org>
In-Reply-To: <200210292239.g9TMdO64011366@apollo.backplane.com>
References:  <200210292048.g9TKmG1J015723@axp.csl.sri.com> <3.0.5.32.20021029162139.010ec928@mail.sage-one.net> <200210292239.g9TMdO64011366@apollo.backplane.com>

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On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 14:39:24 -0800 (PST)
Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote:

MD>     is absolutely correct.  It is safest to run dd only on idle 
MD>     filesystems, leaving the source filesystems mounted and the

	Mounting the source read only would seem to be safer, or doesn't
a r/o mount block dd from writing ?

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