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 Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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