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Date:      Sun, 08 Jul 2001 00:27:16 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        mjacob@feral.com
Cc:        Jeff Mohler <supra87t@yahoo.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: best way to migrate to a new disk 
Message-ID:  <200107080627.f686RGJ76468@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 07 Jul 2001 18:44:14 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107071842230.58871-100000@beppo> 
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107071842230.58871-100000@beppo>  

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107071842230.58871-100000@beppo> Matthew Jacob writes:
: tar cfl - . | (cd /altroot/<local_fs> && tar xpf -)

Don't use tar.  It loses devices, can't handle holey files well and a
number of other minor clitches.  Use dump instead.

Warner

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