From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Sep 21 3:30: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1806437B422 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 03:30:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id DAA14525; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 03:30:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 03:30:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200009211030.DAA14525@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: From: Mike Meyer Subject: Re: docs/21443: I'm tired of telling people how to copy a disk. Reply-To: Mike Meyer Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/21443; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Mike Meyer To: Oliver Fromme Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, Subject: Re: docs/21443: I'm tired of telling people how to copy a disk. Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 05:27:46 -0500 (CDT) Oliver Fromme writes: > > For what it's worth, cpdup works perfectly fine to copy a > disk (or any directory tree), even the root FS. It's easier > to use and more efficient than dump/restore, and it's not > restricted to whole file systems. Therefore I'd suggest > mentioning cpdup in this FAQ section (unfortunately I'm not > a native English speaker, otherwise I'd try to formulate > an appropriate paragraph myself). > > cpdup is in the ports collection in the sysutils category > (I really wish it was in the base system). Since I don't use it, I'm not really willing to recommend it myself (ditto for pax and cpio). For a number of reasons, I won't recommend using it on the root fs. So how about adding a sentence along the lines of "You might prefer cpio(1), pax(1) or cpdup (in ports/sysutils/cpdup) to tar." at the appropiate point?