Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 16:28:32 GMT From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> To: Security Administrator <sadmin@roundtable.cif.rochester.edu>, freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: good way to add disks? Message-ID: <199612181628.QAA14500@deacon.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: Security Administrator's message of Wed, 18 Dec 1996 11:09:33 -0500 (EST)
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> Also, can anyone recommend the best way to move this kind of information > without losing data? I was thinking of doing a dump of the entire > filesystem on the old drive into a single file on the new one. My hope > is that all of the permissions, times, and other amenities will be > maintained in this way. Tar doesn't catch everything. You should be able to do a dump onto the raw disk device, without even making a file system on it. -- Richard
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