On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 05:55:06PM +0000, Ray wrote:
> I am building my process for backup / restore using dump & restore.
> 
> Looking at the FAQ when restoring the file system, I noticed:
> 
> newfs /dev/r[drive][partition] 
> 
> for example:
> newfs /dev/rwd0a
> 
> What is the 'r' before the wd0a and its purpose?

$ ls -l /dev/rwd0a
crw-r-----  1 root  operator    3,   0 Dec  1 14:49 /dev/rwd0a

The raw disk slice is accessed one character at a time, it is a
character device.



$ ls -l /dev/wd0a
brw-r-----  1 root  operator    0,   0 Dec  1 14:49 /dev/wd0a

This is block device, blocks of data can be read/written.

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