Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 14:06:19 -0400 From: drifter@stratos.net To: Jos Backus <J.G.E.Backus@urc.tue.nl> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, drifter@stratos.net Subject: Re: How to make and exact image of an hard disk! Message-ID: <199804221806.OAA26238@stratos.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 Apr 1998 11:06:36 %2B0200." <19980422110636.C7207@asterix.urc.tue.nl>
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Wed. 22, APR 1998: Jos Backus wrote... >On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 01:44:13AM -0700, boma toma wrote: >> Is it possible to make and exact image ( each byte by byte and >> sector by sector ) on another hard disk, e-g secotr 1 of the master >> disk should be exactly copied on the sector 1 of the slave disk ? >> Both Hard disks are on same machine! > >If the disks are exactly identical geometry/size-wise and have the same amount >of disk blocks, this can be a simple as > > # dd if=/dev/rwd0c of=/dev/rwd1c Doesn't: # cat /dev/rwd0c > /dev/rwd1c work as well? Or is that asking for trouble? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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