Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:30:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com (Lowell Gilbert) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCSI Shock Advice ! Message-ID: <200409211730.i8LHU5W05986@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <44d60f4m10.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> from "Lowell Gilbert" at Sep 21, 2004 12:36:11 PM
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> > Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> writes: > > > By the way, I notice that in the FAQ on moving to a "huge disk" > > it uses the 'x' switch on the restore and I think it is more > > appropriate to use 'r'. So, 'restore rf -' as I indicate in > > my post instead of 'restore xf -' as in the faq. > > Actually, it might work either way, but I think 'r' is more correct. > > It will, indeed, work either way, but the "r" flag will do a newfs. > Because the example had already done a newfs, this is redundant (and > wipees out any special parameters you may have used in the original > newfs invocation). Hmmm. I have restored lots of dumps using the 'r' switch and never saw it do a newfs. In fact the man page for restore tells you to make sure it is pristine by doing a newfs before the restore. Actually, I do restore -r into directories that are not even the root of a file system and had no problem or seen any newfs occur. -- I do that when merging one system to another and don't want to deal with naming all the files on the restore. ////jerry
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