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Date:      Fri, 5 Sep 1997 23:57:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@bigbrother.rust.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: problem using dd to duplicate hard drive
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970905235525.7701Q-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <199709051432.KAA29913@bigbrother.rust.net>

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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.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
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