From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 25 15:10: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F9E337BDDA for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 15:10:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA08673; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 15:10:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) From: John Polstra Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA42555; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 15:09:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 15:09:59 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200002252309.PAA42555@vashon.polstra.com> To: freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net Subject: Re: Streamlining FreeBSD installations across many machines In-Reply-To: <200002251737.JAA70913@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <200002251737.JAA70913@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: current@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <200002251737.JAA70913@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > A much faster way to do this is to just dd the first few megabytes > of the disk (dd if=foo of=/dev/rXXd bs=32768 count=1024). Then use > dump | restore to populate the disk. Do you run newfs on the receiving disk before the dump|restore? It seems like if you didn't then the free block bitmaps in the cylinder groups would contain garbage. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message