Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 21:24:18 -0400 (EDT) From: "James C. Durham" <durham@sludge.pgh.pa.us> To: jason@intercom.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: duplicating a bad HDD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990830212104.14086A-100000@sludge.pgh.pa.us>
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jason@intercom.com wrote: >I have a machine that has a bad IDE HDD. Fortunately, the IDE feature >SMART >realized this. >It is currently my boot drive. What I would like to to is back it up and >restore it onto >a new drive. How can I make an exact copy, including boot blocks and >everything? I am assuming >using dd, but can anyone give me an example? Assuming that the first drive is wd0 and the second is wd1.... dd if=/dev/wd0 of=/dev/wd1 bs=4096 -Jim Durham To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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