Disk Cloning

[Warren Block]

On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, RW wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:22:31 +0200
> Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
>
>> doing 1:1 copies with dd is always possible and will
>> keep content identically; remember to copy the MBR separately
>> with bs=512 and count=1 from the /dev/ad{source} device.
>
> Why?

Because it contains the partition table.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA