On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Nick Holland wrote:
PS I also don't understand why the first 16*512 bytes are
skipped when using dd?
I was really hoping someone else would answer this, I'm not completely
sure about my answer...I think that's where the PBR and the disklabel
hides. Actually, I
/etc/daily uses the following code
sync
echo
echo Backing up root filesystem:
echo copying /dev/r$rootdev to /dev/r$rootbak
dd if=/dev/r$rootdev of=/dev/r$rootbak bs=16b seek=1 skip=1 \
conv=noerror
fsck -y /dev/r$rootbak
where as http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#DupFS
says to use
Peter Fraser wrote:
/etc/daily uses the following code
sync
echo
echo Backing up root filesystem:
echo copying /dev/r$rootdev to /dev/r$rootbak
dd if=/dev/r$rootdev of=/dev/r$rootbak bs=16b seek=1 skip=1 \
conv=noerror
fsck -y /dev/r$rootbak
where as
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