> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rodney W. Grimes
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > A much faster way to do this is to just dd the first few megabytes
> > of the disk (dd if=foo of=/dev/rXXd bs=32768 count=1024). Then use
> > dump | restore to populate the disk.
>
> Do you run newfs on the receiving disk before the dump|restore? It
> seems like if you didn't then the free block bitmaps in the cylinder
> groups would contain garbage.
Ooopsss.. left a step out... yes.. we newfs the disk after the dd
operations.
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