From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun Dec 22 16:21:24 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id QAA28162 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Sun, 22 Dec 1996 16:21:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id QAA28156 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 1996 16:21:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id BAA17180; Mon, 23 Dec 1996 01:21:12 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id BAA05360; Mon, 23 Dec 1996 01:21:12 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id AAA20751; Mon, 23 Dec 1996 00:54:43 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199612222354.AAA20751@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: good way to add disks? To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD SCSI list) Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 00:54:43 +0100 (MET) Cc: sadmin@roundtable.cif.rochester.edu Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <1309.199612222332@pitcairn.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> from Richard Tobin at "Dec 22, 96 11:32:46 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Richard Tobin wrote: > > > You should be able to do a dump onto the raw disk device, without even > > > making a file system on it. > > > Not if you think of `dump' in terms of dump(8)/restore(8). Only if > > you think of `dump' in terms of dd(1) -- but who would be willing to > > do this these days? > > Er, no, actually I was thinking of: > > spottisvax# dump -fBb /dev/rsd1 xxx yyy / > > Is there some reason not to do this? Is there some reason you want to do this? :-) Basically, it will make /dev/rsd1 a ``dump tape''. However, i don't think this will do you any good, at the very least, it's nothing you would even remotely be able to mount... The only purpose you could use /dev/rsd1 thereafter is feeding it into restore(8). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)