Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 16:17:20 +1100 (EST) From: Iain Templeton <itemple@elysium.clare.tased.edu.au> To: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hard disk copying Message-ID: <Pine.3.85.9510111620.A1561-0100000@elysium.clare.tased.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199510100600.XAA16870@ref.tfs.com>
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On Mon, 9 Oct 1995, Julian Elischer wrote: > > What I basically want is to be able to copy one disk, to another > > (obviously), where the disks are on the same SCSI2 controller, and should > > be the same model drive (exact model not known at this time). > if they have the same number of blocks, > then > dd if=/dev/rsd0 of=/dev/rsd1 bs=64k should work.. > > this will mail miserably if the second drive is smaller than the first :) Does this require either or both of the drives to be unmounted. I was just thinking if whilst the copy was occuring if the source drive was written to, would that possibly cause the dest. to be invalid (or I could just mount read only) especially if the write occured before and after the current copy location (if that makes sense). > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Iain Templeton, Grade 12 student and administrator of Unix boxes/WWW/News at > > Claremont College, Claremont, Tasmania, Australia. > > ah the land of real chocolate! > In fact, I can see the Cadbury factory out the window (well if I move right a lot and pretend the trees aren't there) -Iain. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Iain Templeton, Grade 12 student and administrator of Unix boxes/WWW/News at Claremont College, Claremont, Tasmania, Australia. EMAIL: itemple@clare.tased.edu.au WWW: http://www.clare.tased.edu.au/~itemple/ PGP Public Key available on request (well maybe...) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "A Pentium Pro - thats not a P6, thats a P5 and a bit..."
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