>>Oh, one other thing...boot off a third drive. you don't want open files on
>>the drive you're copying from!
>
>Yes, this is what I was afraid of. It sounds like there is no way to
>safely mirror one drive to another without properly shutting down the
>source filesystem.
When I've made a copy of the active root device,
I done it freshly booted into single-user mode and
after haveing said 'sync' a bunch of time before
starting the copy. Since nothing else was running
or generating filesystem activity the few resulting
inconsistencies were trivially repaired with fsck.
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