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Date:      Fri, 10 Mar 2000 11:57:00 -0500
From:      'Peter Radcliffe' <pir@pir.net>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: disk cloning
Message-ID:  <20000310115700.C2584@pir.net>
In-Reply-To: <212CC57E84B8D111AD780000F84AA049083C2D0E@mroexc2.tay.dec.com>; from Michael.Waite@compaq.com on Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 11:50:56AM -0500
References:  <212CC57E84B8D111AD780000F84AA049083C2D0E@mroexc2.tay.dec.com>

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"Waite, Michael" <Michael.Waite@compaq.com> probably said:
> The disk is indeed showing up as da2
> now the dd shows this as the error:
> da2 rwa partition size ! slice size
> da2 start0, end 177773523, size bla bla bla
> more bla bla bla
> dd: /dev/da2 : Read-Only fuilesystem
> 1+0 in
> 0+0 out

and on to the next problem.

Disk cloning with dd is evil. Don't Do That.

My recommendation is to partition the disk as you desire, newfs and mount
the partitions then use
cd /new/partition;  dump 0f - /original/partition | restore rf -

This really belongs in freebsd-questions.

P.

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pir                  pir@pir.net                    pir@net.tufts.edu



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