[SunHELP] Mirroring a disk

[Will Mc Donald]

Under linux if you dd the whole disk device the boot block gets copied as
well. Under Solaris you probably need to run installboot after copying the
disk contents.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Trond Eirik Aune" <trond.eirik.aune at ttyl.com>
To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 9:01 AM
Subject: RE: [SunHELP] Mirroring a disk


> Hi
>
> Dont you have to run some cammands to make the disk bootable as you have
to
> do on HP (mkboot, lvlnboot) ?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of Will Mc Donald
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 9:56 AM
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Mirroring a disk
>
>
> Boot of the CD, then something like...
>
>
> dd if=/dev/dsk/c0t0d0 of=/dev/dsk/c0t1d0
>
>
> Actually, looking at the /dev directory in Solaris there doesn't appear to
> be a "whole disk" device (equivalent to /dev/sda on linux for instance) so
> you might have to partition the new drive then do individual slices.
>
> Will.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Low, Adam" <ALow at Prioritytelecom.com>
> To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 8:41 AM
> Subject: RE: [SunHELP] Mirroring a disk
>
>
> > Hi Will,
> >
> > I'd be interested in how that's done, could you provide an example
command
> line !?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > ADam
>