From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 14 14:18:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB5C437B401 for ; Sat, 14 Dec 2002 14:18:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailout02.sul.t-online.com (mailout02.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 035BB43ED1 for ; Sat, 14 Dec 2002 14:18:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garyj@jennejohn.org) Received: from fwd02.sul.t-online.de by mailout02.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 18NKc1-0002a5-03; Sat, 14 Dec 2002 23:18:21 +0100 Received: from peedub.jennejohn.org (520017439985-0001@[217.235.112.243]) by fmrl02.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 18NKbn-0e9go4C; Sat, 14 Dec 2002 23:18:07 +0100 Received: from peedub.jennejohn.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peedub.jennejohn.org (8.12.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gBEMHkEq014939; Sat, 14 Dec 2002 23:17:55 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from garyj@peedub.jennejohn.org) Message-Id: <200212142217.gBEMHkEq014939@peedub.jennejohn.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.3 To: dick hoogendijk Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Clone FreeBSD Partition Reply-To: Gary Jennejohn In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 14 Dec 2002 13:43:20 +0100." <20021214124320.GA15363@nagual.st> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 23:17:46 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn X-Sender: 520017439985-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG dick hoogendijk writes: > > Jerry McAllister writes: > >> Really, your best bet is dump(8)/restore(8). > > > > If you don't need inode-per-inode cloning then try > > /usr/ports/sysutils/cpdup. > > What's the (dis)advantage of inode-per-inode cloning? > Actually, the cpdup was from me and not Jerry McAllister. I just made the comment re: inode-per-inode because AFAIK that's the way dump/restore will work. I'm not aware of an advantage or disadvantage to using dump/restore (except for restoring from tape) but thought that cpdup might be easier to understand and use. --- Gary Jennejohn / garyj@jennejohn.org gj@freebsd.org gj@denx.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message