From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Mar 10 12:22: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABA3837BA82; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 12:22:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA73255; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 13:21:58 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id NAA17623; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 13:21:36 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200003102021.NAA17623@harmony.village.org> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cloning disks Cc: "Waite, Michael" , alpha@FreeBSD.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> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 13:21:36 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message