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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!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: Raw disk copying. Date: 12 Nov 1995 14:15:37 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 24 Message-ID: <484s1p$jhl@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <47m969$h1p@dracula.hybrid.com> <47m9b3$h1p@dracula.hybrid.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Kenneth Coley <coley@hybrid.com> wrote: > >Riddle me this, Riddle me that, > >I thought that the "D" slice of a hard drive is supposed to be the entire >hard drive. "C" seems to be the entire freebsd slice. When I copy a drive >using: > > dd if=/dev/wd0d of=/dev/wd1d bs=1024k The special meaning of the `d' partition went away with FreeBSD 2.0.5's slice paradigm. Now, simply use dd if=/dev/rwd0 of=/dev/rwd1 bs=1m (NB: **never** use the buffered device [/dev/wd0] for these operations!) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)