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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!news.dfn.de!gs.dfn.de!fauern!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: duplicate hard disks Date: 27 Sep 1995 23:28:59 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 22 Message-ID: <44cj7b$pic@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <449knc$n6d@overload.lbl.gov> <44a19k$t5l@helena.MT.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Nate Williams <nate@sneezy.sri.com> wrote: ># dd if=/dev/rwd0c of=/dev/rwd1c bs=256k conv-sync That's only valid for the "compatibility" slice, and the "c" partition is rather superfluous. Either dd if=/dev/rwd0 of=/dev/rwd1 <dd options> or dd if=/dev/rwd0s<N> of=/dev/rwd1s<M> <dd options> In the latter case, wd1 has to be "sliced" before starting the copy operation; usually done by running some kind of fdisk program. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)