Disk Cloning
Warren Block
wblock at wonkity.com
Tue Sep 29 02:08:49 UTC 2009
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
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