On 3/12/06, Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > It is, with a few 'buts'. Firstly, the source should be mounted > > but may not - unless system is generally idle. fsck will be checking the > copy then, but with success.
No matter what fsck says later, it's too dangerous. A FreeBSD system (as well as any other complicated OS) is never really idle in terms of disk I/O. On 3/12/06, Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > list sometime in the last 3-5 weeks. Giorgios Keramidas > > commented that "dd" was too slow for his tastes and > > dd is the fastest, but probably he used small block size. 64K is OK dd can be slower than dump/restore in quite a few cases, especially when disk is far from full. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
