[SunHELP] Mirroring a disk

Greg sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Wed Apr 25 03:18:14 CDT 2001


On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 08:56:02 +0100  "Will Mc Donald" wrote:
> 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.

Slice 2, by convention, is typically the "whole disk" device.  Check the
vtoc to be sure, some people use s2 for other uses.

-greg



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