Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 23:32:46 GMT From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch), freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD SCSI list) Cc: sadmin@roundtable.cif.rochester.edu Subject: Re: good way to add disks? Message-ID: <1309.199612222332@pitcairn.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: J Wunsch's message of Wed, 18 Dec 1996 23:31:05 %2B0100 (MET)
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> > 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? -- Richard
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