Re: using dd to duplicate disks/partitions of slightly different sizes - works?

2007-12-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 10:29:15AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: > I've got two 160GB disks. Different manufacturers, so different # > bytes. One is FreeBSD, the other blank. I'd like to backup my system > for the fastest possible recovery after a crash - move the plug and > power up. I have gmir

Re: using dd to duplicate disks/partitions of slightly different sizes - works?

2007-12-01 Thread RW
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 20:53:41 -0500 Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried using dd with two 80GB disks, using a much larger block size > (512M), booting Knoppix to make sure the filesystems on the 'input' > disk were quiescent. It worked, but took an amazing 14 hours, which > is only abou

Re: using dd to duplicate disks/partitions of slightly different sizes - works?

2007-12-01 Thread Mike Jeays
On December 1, 2007 03:19:59 pm Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Steve Franks wrote: > > I've got two 160GB disks. Different manufacturers, so different # > > bytes. One is FreeBSD, the other blank. I'd like to backup my system > > for the fastest possible recovery after a crash - move the plug and > > pow

Re: using dd to duplicate disks/partitions of slightly different sizes - works?

2007-12-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Steve Franks wrote: I've got two 160GB disks. Different manufacturers, so different # bytes. One is FreeBSD, the other blank. I'd like to backup my system for the fastest possible recovery after a crash - move the plug and power up. I have gmirrored before, but I just wanted to do a quick dd,

using dd to duplicate disks/partitions of slightly different sizes - works?

2007-12-01 Thread Steve Franks
I've got two 160GB disks. Different manufacturers, so different # bytes. One is FreeBSD, the other blank. I'd like to backup my system for the fastest possible recovery after a crash - move the plug and power up. I have gmirrored before, but I just wanted to do a quick dd, since I don't want to