From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 2 18:38:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA22493 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 2 May 1998 18:38:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA22479 for ; Sat, 2 May 1998 18:38:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA21292; Sat, 2 May 1998 18:38:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 18:38:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Jos Backus cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to make and exact image of an hard disk! In-Reply-To: <19980429142533.B22538@asterix.urc.tue.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Jos Backus wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 02:06:19PM -0400, drifter@stratos.net wrote: > > > # dd if=/dev/rwd0c of=/dev/rwd1c > > > > Doesn't: > > # cat /dev/rwd0c > /dev/rwd1c > > > > work as well? Or is that asking for trouble? > > It should work, yes. The advantage(?) of using dd is that you can specify a > blocksize to use in order to speed up the copy. Then again, I'd take the > dump|restore route over this approach any day if reliability is any issue at > all. Don't forget to doublecheck that the disklabel and partition table are correct. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message