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Date:      Thu, 4 Jan 1996 22:30:30 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@freebsd.org>
To:        Peter Stubbs <peters@staidan.qld.edu.au>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: duplicating a disk
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960104222952.9492C-100000@Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM>
In-Reply-To: <1AE4686642B@aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au>

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On Fri, 5 Jan 1996, Peter Stubbs wrote:

> 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?

	dd if=/dev/rwd0c of=/dev/rwd1c

Jonathan M. Bresler        FreeBSD Postmaster         jmb@FreeBSD.ORG
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