From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 3 17:42:44 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D5F21065670 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 2010 17:42:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pz0-f184.google.com (mail-pz0-f184.google.com [209.85.222.184]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0069A8FC1F for ; Wed, 3 Feb 2010 17:42:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk14 with SMTP id 14so281709pzk.3 for ; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:42:43 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=j1AekuDs9VRUl7kt4Fbtbdngu/1wpllT391smT7yp54=; b=FtlpI98Y+fmtAVdTLOk0g3iSlF20kY95XIQbRJS/Y05MgZCOROjR3OPtBS59q+F/zL eVtxoziyXJrzzlmP3PMfuMP/778aXmc39JIA94tMDFVte1/CXy+CNq6tk7GQicbp6Ptc z+J1CMdMd2FNllMHCZngPr9sTq9lUxiS3UOfs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=UasRv+LPspnOlQ9hlrdn06g/Os+NNzOOVTfkrArwGMYk2TpDUm5phnNcs0MCXdplnQ ycd5DpVxv19h5L06LVowdFp4iW+0kl9WlD7xDJx5hUg0lisa6hAe4F8x337lbu494WB0 TctUUHvKXMjaFlOqNc/DLT39nqGZHT2LPbglI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.3.34 with SMTP id 34mr5151829wfc.146.1265218963338; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:42:43 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20100203183722.06ead46a.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <539c60b91002021859h6761ef1fk244d69000e089c65@mail.gmail.com> <20100203151808.GC15086@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <539c60b91002030926r28d67355u3930058b9fc759d7@mail.gmail.com> <20100203183722.06ead46a.freebsd@edvax.de> Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 10:42:42 -0700 Message-ID: <539c60b91002030942r1349452ds6c0a9f71ea498fb0@mail.gmail.com> From: Steve Franks To: Polytropon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: can't make an 'a' slice except with auto-defaults 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: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:42:44 -0000 > Why so complicated? The command > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0# newfs /dev/ad1 I'm looking to mirror/dup/image the entire system to something I can stick in another system. I hear there's good reasons for not running my whole system off of a single partition. The 'other' system has 7.2 and has devolved to a 25% chance of a hard freeze every time I unplug a ucom device (seems to have cropped up between 7.2-release and 7.2-stable#3). 8 likes usb, so I like 8. Steve