Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 10:39:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Jay <jay@oneway.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Duplicating drives using dd.. won't work? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980512103102.1445A-100000@tidal.oneway.com>
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Good Morning, I've read the archives, and have gotten conflicting answers, so I wanted to ask here and hopefully get a definitive one. I have a SCSI drive that I wish to make an exact copy of. The drives that I am going to be copying onto are identical to the master (same model). I tried using dd in single user mode to duplicate the disks: dd if=/dev/rsd0c of=/dev/rsd1c bs=32768 And this seems to work... except when I attempt to use the newly created disk, I get all sorts of errors... fsck freaks out on the drive. After awhile, I can get it to repair the drive, but either I lose some files or things get corrupted. In the mailing lists I have seen people suggest doing the copy via dd... and others saying not to... It does not seem to work as is. I'm not a newbie to FreeBSD, and would really like to understand what is happenning here. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks, Jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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