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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: duplicate hard disks
Date: 27 Sep 1995 23:28:59 +0100
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Nate Williams <nate@sneezy.sri.com> wrote:

># dd if=/dev/rwd0c of=/dev/rwd1c bs=256k conv-sync

That's only valid for the "compatibility" slice, and the "c" partition
is rather superfluous.

Either

	dd if=/dev/rwd0 of=/dev/rwd1 <dd options>

or

	dd if=/dev/rwd0s<N> of=/dev/rwd1s<M> <dd options>

In the latter case, wd1 has to be "sliced" before starting the copy
operation; usually done by running some kind of fdisk program.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)