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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Copying Hard Disks Date: 17 Jul 1996 13:31:43 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4sipvv$3tl@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31EC473A.6575@hybrid.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Kenneth Coley <coley@hybrid.com> wrote: > About six to ten months ago, I had a formula for > copying one IDE hard drive to another using dd. > I don't seem to be able to reproduce it. Can > anyone tell me how to do this again. By the way, > the drives have both dos and freebsd partitions on > them. If both drives are identical (or the second one is larger, but you don't care and only intend to use the same amount of space as on the first one): dd if=/dev/rwd0 of=/dev/rwd1 bs=64k -- 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. ;-)