[SunRescue] Moving things onto a new harddrive

User Bobkeys BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak rescue at sunhelp.org
Fri Apr 6 08:58:30 CDT 2001


> How about using 'dd'.... I love this utility...

I would be of the opinion that dd is less than optimal when trying
to fix a problematic fs.  In an emergency, maybe.  To transfer a fs,
I would think a proper dump/restore is the best thing to use.
Why would you use dd over a dump/restore in this situation?

Bob

> > I'd like to take things off a problematic disk at target 1 and move
> > this to a new disk at target 0.  I've reinstalled NetBSD on to a 4 gig




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