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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!news.cyberstore.ca!van-bc!news.mindlink.net!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: images copies of bootable disks Date: 6 Jan 1996 06:38:33 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4cl5d9$p4c@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <rflonmymuu.fsf@puma.cs.byu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <rflonmymuu.fsf@puma.cs.byu.edu>, Phillip J. Windley <windley@lal.cs.byu.edu> wrote: >I'd like to duplicate the disk in one FreeBSD system to make another one. >My plan is to use disksetup and newfs to create a bootable disk with the If you're just going to try and clone a running system, why not do something like this: Assumptions: sd0 and sd1, same size. sd0 is running system, sd1 is clone. dd if=/dev/rsd0c of=/dev/rsd1c After it's finished, you can mount filesystems off of /dev/sd1 and make any tweaks before putting it in the new system. Jordan