Subject: Best way to copy a NetBSD drive to a new drive
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Gerry Simmons <gerry_simmons@phase2.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 06/04/2003 10:32:42
I have a 4GB drive that is going bad. Fortunately, if I cool down the drive
in a refridgerator, it will behave itself for awhile.

I tried to disklabel the new drive exactly as the old, thinking that I could
boot from the Install Floppy, and dd the information
from one partition to another. However, "dd -if /dev/rwd0a -of /dev/rwd1a"
complaind that /dev/rwd1a was a Read-Only Filesystem.

Does anyone have a suggestion on a better way to backup/recover this drive?

Gerry Simmons
simmons@darykon.cet.com