Subject: Re: dd raw disk?
To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net>
From: Andreas Gustafsson <gson@nominum.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/07/2002 08:35:28
Wojciech Puchar writes:
> if you have identical disks
>
> dd if=/dev/rdisk1d of=/dev/rdisk2d bs=64k
>
> with make 1:1 copy of everything
Yes, this will work, but if the source disk is an IDE disk, it will
also log a bunch of unsightly error messages when it reaches the end
of the disk; see PR kern/1238. This really ought to be fixed.
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Andreas Gustafsson, gson@nominum.com