[SunHELP] OT: Linux devices?

[R D]

Yes, if the disks are with identical parameters.
I've done this and it works.

Rossen D.
 
--- Bjorn Ramqvist <brt at g.haggve.se> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Sorry for this rather off-topic question, but
> someone of you all
> geek-druids should be able to answer my question.
> 
> I'm in need for a cheapo mirroring on a Linux-box,
> with two identical
> drives, hda and hdb. Now, if I simply do a "dd
> if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb",
> will that make a COMPLETE copy of the whole disk
> along with bootblocks,
> partition-info etc.?
> My idea is to run this once in a while on a DNS/mail
> serving machine
> which almost never experience filesystem
> modifications, but do have an
> important role in our network. (A harddrive recovery
> would involve only
> a shift of drives to get it working again)
> 
> -- 
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