Forgive problems with this email. I saw how my emails showed up on marc.info Scary. This is just temporary.
OK. I've tried to use both methods and just don't get true duplication. tar It can't work with file and directory names that are OK in filesystem, but too long for itself. Quite a while back I lost a lot of unimportant files and directories that had absolute paths too long. Why is this happening with tar? Can this be fixed? If not, I'd like to add a note about that to the FAQ. dump I had to move /usr/local to a bigger partition. growfs, etc. I kept the /usr/local untouched and then dumped it to the new partition, expecting a true duplication. Nope. It changed all of the program symlinks permissions. Why is dump doing this? Can this be fixed? Otherwise, a note about this should be added to the FAQ also. Question: Can dd be used to do what I did with dump or tar? Smaller partition copied to a bigger partition. I'm willing to try and help out, but I'm going through both laptop and server hell at the moment. Thanks, Chris Bennett
