Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 12:38:52 -0500 From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, JR Richards <jr@ebcrp.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ghosting-like application Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20020607123852.00fc2288@mail.sage-one.net> In-Reply-To: <20020607171622.GB9067@dan.emsphone.com> References: <001801c20e48$6736bd30$3002a8c0@JR> <001801c20e48$6736bd30$3002a8c0@JR>
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At 12:16 PM 6.7.2002 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: >In the last episode (Jun 07), JR Richards said: >> How do I basically ghost my whole FreeBSD harddrive onto another >> harddrive? > >If the drives are the same size, "dd if=/dev/da0 of=/dev/da1 bs=1m" > >If they're different sizes, you'll have to partition and format the 2nd >drive's filesystems, and use a dump | restore pipe to copy the data. > >-- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com > Dan: This reminds me... I've seen the "bs=1m" all over the map from other postings on this very subject: 1024, 4096, 8192 (even 8096)...etc. This is the first at "1m" I've seen & still wonder how this is determined or recommended. I'm using 8192 and it works okay. After doing a dd, I even did a boot test on the HD #2 and it worked slick.... still wonder about the "bs" though.... Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net jackstone@sage-one.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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