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Subject: Re: best way to migrate to a new disk 
Cc: Jeff Mohler <supra87t@yahoo.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 07 Jul 2001 18:44:14 PDT."
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Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 00:27:16 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
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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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