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Date:      Fri, 10 Mar 2000 13:21:36 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        obrien@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        "Waite, Michael" <Michael.Waite@compaq.com>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cloning disks 
Message-ID:  <200003102021.NAA17623@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Mar 2000 09:55:29 PST." <20000310095529.D56154@dragon.nuxi.com> 
References:  <20000310095529.D56154@dragon.nuxi.com>  <212CC57E84B8D111AD780000F84AA049083C2D03@mroexc2.tay.dec.com> 

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In message <20000310095529.D56154@dragon.nuxi.com> "David O'Brien" writes:
: There are some bugs with doing this.  You might email PHK@freebsd.org
: directly as the bug is felt to be in his code.  Or email bde@freebsd.org
: how I think is familar with the bug.  I believe you can do this if you:
: 
:     dd if=/dev/da0 of=/dev/da4 bs=64k skip=512
:     disklabel -B da4
: 
: [I could be off on the offset to skip.  Others can probably correct me.]

diskprep da4 works for me :-)

http://people.freebsd.org/~imp/diskprep

along with the patches to fdisk to make it work:

http://people.freebsd.org/~imp/fdisk-patch

Warner


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