From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 4 16:10:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA26464 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 16:10:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from seraglio.staidan.qld.edu.au (staidans.client.uq.edu.au [130.102.39.106]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA26458 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 16:10:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au (aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au [203.12.39.2]) by seraglio.staidan.qld.edu.au (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA00333 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 1996 10:10:16 +1000 Received: from AIDAN/SpoolDir by aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au (Mercury 1.21); 5 Jan 96 10:10:17 -1000 Received: from SpoolDir by AIDAN (Mercury 1.21); 5 Jan 96 10:09:48 -1000 From: "Peter Stubbs" Organization: St Aidan's A.G.S. To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 10:09:42 -1000 Subject: duplicating a disk Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.23) Message-ID: <1AE4686642B@aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I'm thinking of upgrading my 2.0.5 system to 2.1, but don't want to have it off line for very long. I have a second disk the same as the one 2.0.5 is on, so perhaps I can just copy the whole disk to it? If I put the disk into the 2.0.5 system and make sure it's configured for wd1 can I then type something like "cp /dev/rwd0 /dev/rwd1" to duplicate the disk? I could then upgrade one disk offline, then install it in the working host to test, and have a good backup. Will this work? TIA peter Peter Stubbs, St Aidan's AGS. ph +61-07-3379-9911, fax +61-07-3379-9432