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Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 23:57:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: problem using dd to duplicate hard drive
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On Fri, 5 Sep 1997, Michael W. Lucas wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to use dd to duplicate a hard drive.  I have two identical
> Western Digital 2.5 gig drives, even the same model number.  

No, no, no. Don't do this.  Use disklabel/newfs to make a new filesystem
on the new disk then use tar or dump/restore to copy the contents.

See http://resnet.uoregon.edu/dwhite/makedisk.html for instructions.

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