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Date:      Tue, 14 Mar 2006 11:45:04 +0000
From:      Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com>
To:        "Steve P." <freebsd@houston.rr.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: two slices, copy one slice to another?
Message-ID:  <4416ACC0.6020204@dial.pipex.com>
In-Reply-To: <441666C5.1030008@houston.rr.com>
References:  <441666C5.1030008@houston.rr.com>

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Steve P. wrote:

> Is there a trick to copying one working system from a slice to another 
> slice?
>
> What I envision is two slices:
>    /dev/ad0s1 - one complete install
>    /dev/ad0s2  - copy of first install, via dump restore. (Is this 
> where I screwed up?)

Then edit /etc/fstab on /dev/ad0s2 to reflect the changed mount points 
on that slice.  dump/restore was the right thing to do.

--Alex




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