Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 27 Apr 2001 11:02:17 -0700 | From | LA Walsh <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption. |
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Andrzej Krzysztofowicz wrote:
> I know a few people that often do: > > dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdc1 > e2fsck /dev/hdc1 > > to make an "exact" copy of a currently working system.
--- Presumably this isn't a problem is the source disks are either unmounted or mounted 'read-only' ?
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