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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!hunter.premier.net!news.cais.net!netnews.com!udel-eecis!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!nnrp.info.ucla.edu!agate!overload.lbl.gov!gracie.lbl.gov!jin From: jin@gracie.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG]) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: disklabel for ST15230N under 2.1.x-RELEASE Date: 6 Aug 1996 19:20:14 GMT Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4u85te$1f8@overload.lbl.gov> References: <4tjfo1$o6p@overload.lbl.gov> <4tlus4$c0o@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4tqqdf$l0f@overload.lbl.gov> <4tski5$nsr@godzilla.zeta.org.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: gracie.lbl.gov In article <4tski5$nsr@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> wrote: >In article <4tqqdf$l0f@overload.lbl.gov>, >Jin Guojun[ITG] <jin@gracie.lbl.gov> wrote: >>In article <4tlus4$c0o@uriah.heep.sax.de>, >>J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >>> >>>The label will be duplicated if you actually copy the entire disk: >>> >>> dd if=/dev/rsd0 of=/dev/rsd1 bs=64k >>> >>>Of course, this assumes number_of_blocks(sd1) >= number_of_blocks(sd0). >> >>Apperently, it is not. > >If the disks have different sizes, then copying the labels will probably >give a bogus label. No No. I am talking the same type of disks. All the disks are in the same type Seagate HAWK 4.3 ST15230N I won't do "dd" on different type of disks. It does not make sense normally. The only difference is that you use bs=64k, I used bs=1024k. For my understanding, it should not make different, should it? -- /-------------- Jin Guojun ------------ v ---- Internet: g_jin@lbl.gov ----\ | Imaging & Distributed Computing | Usenet: ucbvax!g_jin@lbl.gov | | Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory | Bitnet: -- | | 50B-2239, Berkeley, CA 94720 - jin%george.lbl.gov@Csa3.LBL.Gov |