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Date:      Mon, 30 Sep 2002 15:50:00 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Pranav A. Desai" <pdesai1@cs.uh.edu>
To:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   how to use 'dd' to create image of a hard drive?
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.33.0209301544250.564-100000@themis.cs.uh.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0209181612280.9213-100000@themis.cs.uh.edu>

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Hi all!

	Can I use something like

dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad1

to copy every thing from first drive to the second and be able to boot
from the second drive? Do I need to specify block size ? The second drive
doesnt have anything on it (filesystem or slices).

Thanks

-Pranav


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