From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 12 09:09:58 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 BF81216A401 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 09:09:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6301043D76 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 09:09:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id h27so666106wxd for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 01:09:57 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Uok6NHQYns6PZrxgdHdIIHVcxuxDfyzHq8UF0jCxatkW4V0EOvmhgpbO9U9FjplsC/hE4m4LckKrsbR7xPHl/mzrpQalcFsfm/zOMqaWxywV+xK0R+4p4tDMnADDeOxi/Ygdnwg6MRIPxHCOvcUSmKq04i/Eoz81bymmfVw6tDQ= Received: by 10.70.20.4 with SMTP id 4mr1230122wxt; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 01:03:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.57.13 with HTTP; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 01:03:10 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 03:03:10 -0600 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: "Steve P." In-Reply-To: <20060311211933.146DA83C0A@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060311211933.146DA83C0A@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disklabel messup. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 09:09:58 -0000 On 3/11/06, Steve P. wrote: > I have been reading up on how to "clone" a disk, so I can boot into a cop= y. Seems like some say tar can do it, but I have seen a place that said to = only use dump. I tend to use pax, since it's a bit more straightforward* than tar for copy= ing, but dump/restore is the one true way, if you have an investment in the validity of the copy. tar (and pax) require that you make the slice bootable (via bsdlabel or els= e- wise), the dump and restore cycle cares not a whit for such conventions. *lies, pax is about as backwards and arcane as you could possibly hope for. -- --