Creating clone of a HDD including boot partition

[Bernt Hansson]

2010-12-16 11:55, bsd:

> I have tried to use the compressed approach using smthg like:
>
> # mount /dev/ad0s1a /mnt
> # cd /mnt
> # dd if=/dev/zero of=zerofile bs=1M
>
>
> I have a lot of errors on standerr output such as :
>
> g_vfs_done() : da0s1a [WRITE(offset=58978680256, length=131072)]error = 5

You have to little disk space, is my guess.

> Up to a point where It has finaly freezed my running FBSD 8.1.

To little to fast.

> I don't think I have reached the end of the file… ??
>