One of our DBA's is wanting to move datafiles between raw volumes and I
think I can use dd to do this, I've tried to find some information relating
to this and I noticed the following extract in some Oracle docs.
Digital UNIX utilises a 64k operating system header at the beginning of each
raw device.
Use the seek= option with the UNIX dd command to skip the first 64k of the
raw
device before attempting to write data. Assuming the default blocksize of
512
bytes used by dd, the value would be seek=128.
My question is;
can I go ahead and copy the operating system header from one raw device to
another, or do I need to add in the seek option in dd.
TIA
Best Regards,
Gareth Dempsey
UNIX Systems Administrator
Acxiom LTD
Tel: 0191 525 7474
Fax: 0191 525 7007
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