From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 30 10:26:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 805C637B401 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 10:26:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp5.wanadoo.nl (smtp5.wanadoo.nl [194.134.35.176]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE54D43E4A for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 10:26:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from steve@sohara.org) Received: from ams-gw.sohara.org (rot2-p2538.dial.wanadoo.nl [194.134.139.234]) by smtp5.wanadoo.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 4CDB574B9F; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 19:26:28 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 19:26:29 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: Matthew Dillon 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) X-Face: %]+HVL}K`P8>+8ZcY-WGHP6j@&mxMo9JH6_WdgIgUGH)JX/usO0%jy7T~IVgqjumD^OBqX,Kv^-GM6mlw(fI^$"QRKyZ$?xx/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 14:39:24 -0800 (PST) Matthew Dillon 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 ? -- C:>WIN | Directable Mirrors The computer obeys and wins. |A Better Way To Focus The Sun You lose and Bill collects. | licenses available - see: | http://www.sohara.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message