From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 14 12: 4:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axel.truedestiny.net (a185066.upc-a.chello.nl [62.163.185.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECC0337B40C for ; Tue, 14 May 2002 12:04:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by axel.truedestiny.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 411EE49AB2; Tue, 14 May 2002 21:04:35 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 21:04:35 +0200 From: Axel Scheepers To: Joseph Maxwell Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: questions-digest V5 #1289 Message-ID: <20020514210434.F9170@mars.thuis> Reply-To: Axel Scheepers References: <3CE10267.ACDFA70@jaymax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3CE10267.ACDFA70@jaymax.com>; from jemaxwell@jaymax.com on Tue, May 14, 2002 at 05:26:16AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Joseph, dd should work fine, try something like 'dd if=/dev/ad0c of=/dev/ad1c' On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 05:26:16AM -0700, Joseph Maxwell wrote: > Hello, > Running FreeBSD 4.2 > One of my disks, the system disk, an EIDE, started developing bad blocks w/ hardware I/O errors - "Replacement time" > MAXTOR drive replacement > Would like to copy and maintain my original config., data etc. on the new sys. disk, how should I go about doing this, from scratch - including the partitioning of the new > disk. Thought 'dd' might be appropriate but would it create partitions etc? > Thanks Gr, -- Axel Scheepers UNIX System Administrator email: axel@axel.truedestiny.net a.scheepers@iae.nl http://axel.truedestiny.net/~axel ------------------------------------------ Boston, n.: Ludwig van Beethoven being jeered by 50,000 sports fans for finishing second in the Irish jig competition. ------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message