From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 27 21:26: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8124F37B400 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 21:25:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from moutvdomng0.schlund.de (moutvdomng0.kundenserver.de [195.20.224.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 639D543DE2 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 21:25:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@pukruppa.de) Received: from [195.20.224.204] (helo=mrvdom00.kundenserver.de) by moutvdomng0.schlund.de with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #2) id 17NnKU-0002MF-00; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 06:25:54 +0200 Received: from [217.1.114.244] (helo=pD90172F4.dip.t-dialin.net) by mrvdom00.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #3) id 17NnKT-0002Qj-00; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 06:25:53 +0200 Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 06:25:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa To: "Justin L.Boss" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: copy one drive to another In-Reply-To: <20020627155149.UUAV29627.lakemtao01.cox.net@smtp.east.cox.net> Message-ID: <20020628062203.T17435-100000@small.pukruppa.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Justin L.Boss wrote: > i'm trying to copy one drive to another. The drives are not the > same size, so i'm trying to decide which would be the best way > to do it. I believe your question has already been answered, but in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1 /articles/formatting-media/x210.html you will find another solution using the command pax, which always worked fine for me. Regards, Uli. > > dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad1 > dump -0 -f /dev/ad1 /dev/ad0 > tar -cf /dev/ad1 / > > or should i use the rew device. Thank for you help. > Justin > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > *-----------------------------------* * Peter Ulrich Kruppa * * - Wuppertal - * * Germany * *-----------------------------------* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message