11-16-2012
Disclaimer: I know very little about Solaris and had never heard of lucreate until now. What follows is just a (probably unnecessary) observation regarding dd:
Running dd on a storage device that may be written to can yield an image that never existed.
Regards,
Alister
Last edited by alister; 11-16-2012 at 12:05 PM..
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