Thanks to all who replied, special thanks to Sergio Novaes. The problem is the old disk label was being copied to the new disk. I ended up using ufsdump/ufsrestore. A lot of folks wanted to know why I was using dd. I do this every few month and it's faster, and I never used a different size disk to copy to before. Phillip Miller suggested using a script that can be found at www.unixadm.net/howto/manual_mirror.html Original post below: I have two new disks Seagate ST318438LW 18.4 Gig, that I'm using dd ("dd if=/dev/rmt/0 of=/dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s0 bs=100b") to copy my root image from a Seagate ST39236LW 9.2 Gig disk to the new disks. I label, partition, verify and save the new disks with format. After I run the dd command the disk takes on the characteristics of the disk the image was copied from, It's now seen as a 9.2 gig disk with the same partitioning as the 9.2 gig disk had. I'm doing this while booted with a Solaris 7 or 8 cdrom ("boot cdrom -s"). I zero out the label and try again same thing happens on both new disks. What I'm I doing wrong here. Thanks. _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Tue Sep 10 10:15:24 2002
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