Replacing a failing HD
Craig Deal
craig at advantagecomputer.biz
Thu Oct 6 20:25:13 PDT 2005
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Bob Ababurko
> Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 7:53 AM
> To: Charlie Schluting; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Replacing a failing HD
>
> Yes, I guess I should mention that the drives were on the
> same machine, actually the same bus and/or channel. I have
> also done this on Solaris.
> I believe it was Solaris 8, but it works just the same. I
> am not sure if it would work over a network. Just make sure
> you dd the disk as a whole as in /dev/daX and not by the slice.
>
> -Bob
>
>
> Charlie Schluting wrote:
> >>I have used dd to image a drive many times before in freebsd. It
> >>works like a champion and will boot up just fine. I may have
> >>misunderstood your mail but if not then it will work.
> >>
> >
> >
> > Well, maybe my weird "over ssh calling a setuid program
> that calls a
> > script" dd was flawed somehow. I'll do it again with both drives in
> > the same machine.
> >
> > Thanks for the response!
Hope it's ok to continue this thread, but can you explain in more detail how
to use dd to copy a HD. I read "man dd" and was unable to figure out how
this is done.
Thanks,
Craig
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