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Disk VTOC cloning

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Solaris Disk VTOC Cloning

To quickly clone the Virtual Table Of Content from one disk to another:

dd if=/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2 of=/dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s2 count=16

This will copy the partitioning information from one disk to another (ie if you have one disk you want to make into a mirror device).

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Living Dangerously

I have actually used this to clone a partition table from one disk type to another, same vendor and yield size but totally different geometries; so far this has worked. I can't at all recommend it; if you try it and it doesn't work, I presume you'd have to find an un-buggered example and copy the VTOC from the good disk to the buggered one.

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Vendor: FUJITSU
Product: MAP3735N SUN72G
Revision: 0401
Vendor: FUJITSU
Product: MAW3073NC
Revision: 0104
 
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