Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 22:31:53 -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.3.91.960104223043.9492D-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? use a larger block size, just dd will take forever dd if=/dev/rwd0c of=/dev/rwd1c bs=100k Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG play go. ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life i am moving to a new job. PLEASE USE: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG
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