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Date:      Tue, 14 Mar 2000 12:00:17 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To:        "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Cloning the root partition 
Message-ID:  <96908.953028017@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Mar 2000 08:58:26 PST." <200003101658.IAA31252@ptavv.es.net> 

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On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 08:58:26 PST, "Kevin Oberman" wrote:

> Running standalone I use the command:
> # dd bs=1024 if=/dev/rwd0s1a of=/dev/rwd1s1a

You need write access to both device nodes.  The target device node must
not be mounted.  I must admit, I wouldn't have used the raw device nodes
myself, but I'm not sure that it won't work.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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