Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 20:40:31 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Khaled Hussain <khaled@ipbill.com> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cloning a FreeBSD HDD Message-ID: <20060404104031.GI683@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <HCEOIFALKKLBLJPENPNOGENDCAAA.khaled@ipbill.com> References: <20060328.210412.18287651.imp@bsdimp.com> <HCEOIFALKKLBLJPENPNOGENDCAAA.khaled@ipbill.com>
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On Tue, 2006-Apr-04 11:12:03 +0100, Khaled Hussain wrote: >Why does everyone talk about dump+restore as a pair? I thought it was >possible just to dump a filesystem to a different hard disk i.e. >dump -0a -f /dev/ad2 / It is. But /dev/ad2 will have a dumpfile on it, not a filesystem. The only thing that can then read /dev/ad2 is restore. >Also, how can I find out which /boot/boot# file a freebsd system is using by >default? None of the ones in the filesystem - these files are embedded into the beginning of the hard disk. One of boot0, boot0sio or mbr is located in absolute sector 0 of the disk. boot1 is located in sector 0 of the bootable slice boot2 is located in the (I think) sectors 1-15 of partition a. -- Peter Jeremy
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