dd - cloning a disk.

Andrew Pantyukhin infofarmer at gmail.com
Sun Mar 12 16:45:07 UTC 2006


On 3/12/06, Mike Jeays <mj001 at rogers.com> wrote:
> I have done this 'safely', by booting Knoppix, and using dd to copy the
> disk in the knowledge that all the UFS filesystems are closed and clean.
> Use a large blocksize; you can go a lot bigger than 64K.

Single-user mode is more than enough and arguably less
hassle-free.


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