On 2008-09-02, Khalid Schofield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I want to clone the disk can I just cat /dev/sd0 > /dev/sd1 if I > boot off the install cd?
dd if=/dev/rsd0c of=/dev/rsd1c This will limit you to the size of the smaller drive. It is better to (fdisk)/disklabel/newfs/mount partitions on the new drive, then you can do things like "cd /newdrive; dump -0uf - / | restore rf -" "cd /newdrive/usr; dump -0uf - /usr | restore rf -" etc. > Last night I connected a USB disk and tried to use dump to clone /dev/ > rwd0a but it was only dumping the first 4Gb's which was irritating to > put it mildly. I used dump -0auf /usb/root.dump /dev/rwd0a > > I also tried dump -0auB 4198400 -f /usb/root.dump /dev/rwd0a and > still it bombs out asking for the next media to be inserted after 4gb's. See mount_msdos(8) CAVEATS, then reformat it with FFS.
