Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:00:15 -0600 (CST) From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Creating clone of a HDD including boot partition Message-ID: <201012150800.oBF80FRf015357@mail.r-bonomi.com>
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> From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Dec 14 09:01:02 2010 > From: nagios <nagios@todoo.biz> > Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:42:42 +0100 > To: Liste FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Subject: Creating clone of a HDD including boot partition > > Hello, > > I have setup a tailored made configuration (1 UFS partition + 1 > swap + boot sectors) for some hardware that I am reselling and > would like to clone one existing HDD (tailor made) and be able to > dump to another new HDD. > > System is running pfSense with FreeBSD 7.2 and soon 8.x > > What would be your suggested method to achieve this goal. *IF* the disks are the same size/geometry, then simply dd(1) from one raw device to the other.
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