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Old 14th October 2008
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Originally Posted by BSDfan666 View Post
Not entirely true killasmurf86, but somewhat... directly using dd for such things isn't what I'd recommend, dump+restore and preparing the new disk is somewhat better.

A direct "dd" to a new disk will work in some situations... but he'll need to increase the size of the MBR partition and the disklabel.. then carefully use growfs.

Often there are many solutions to the same problem on Unix..
I know, that, i was just lazy to write....
anyway, in most cases, simple user will mess up with dd
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