Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 09:35:01 +0100 (MET) From: grog@lemis.de To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org (FreeBSD SCSI Mailing List) Subject: Re: good way to add disks? Message-ID: <199612270835.JAA03088@freebie.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <199612182231.XAA24183@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Dec 18, 96 11:31:05 pm"
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J Wunsch writes: > As Richard Tobin wrote: > >> 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? I, for one. As long as you don't change your disk geometry, it works fine, and it's faster than any file-system related method. There's only one problem: it doesn't work. To be more specific, it didn't work for me last year when using pre-release 2.1. There was some problem about the device protecting itself, and I never resolved it. Possibly I just used the wrong device. It worked fine on BSD/OS once you disabled the label overwrite protection code. Greg
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