From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 23 02:22:42 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA02228 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 23 Dec 1995 02:22:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA02214 for ; Sat, 23 Dec 1995 02:22:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id LAA20610; Sat, 23 Dec 1995 11:22:23 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA01335; Sat, 23 Dec 1995 11:22:23 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id KAA22642; Sat, 23 Dec 1995 10:27:12 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199512230927.KAA22642@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: disk to disk copy To: didier@omnix.fr.org Date: Sat, 23 Dec 1995 10:27:11 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "didier@omnix.fr.org" at Dec 21, 95 01:03:33 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As didier@omnix.fr.org wrote: > > > is it to do a disk to disk copy including the partition table and label It depends on the device node you're using. You can copy all, includ- ing even the master boot record (which _can_ be the start of the BSD disklabel as well, but isn't for most disks). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)