Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 00:54:43 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD SCSI list) Cc: sadmin@roundtable.cif.rochester.edu Subject: Re: good way to add disks? Message-ID: <199612222354.AAA20751@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <1309.199612222332@pitcairn.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> from Richard Tobin at "Dec 22, 96 11:32:46 pm"
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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? > > Er, no, actually I was thinking of: > > spottisvax# dump -fBb /dev/rsd1 xxx yyy / > > Is there some reason not to do this? Is there some reason you want to do this? :-) Basically, it will make /dev/rsd1 a ``dump tape''. However, i don't think this will do you any good, at the very least, it's nothing you would even remotely be able to mount... The only purpose you could use /dev/rsd1 thereafter is feeding it into restore(8). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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