Disk copy

[Joerg Pernfuss]

On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 00:34:59 +0300
Roman Kurakin <rik at inse.ru> wrote:

> How this will deal with partition table? File is not partition copy,
> it is full copy of entire disk with partition table etc.

It won't deal with anything. It will simply provide the file as a
device node. If the file contains valid file system structures, then
GEOM will create these (similar to a usb drive getting plugged in).


~/test> ls -l
-rw-r--r--  1 elessar  users  20971520 18 Feb 23:09 container

~/test> file container
container: x86 boot sector

~/test> sudo mdconfig -a -t vnode -f container -u 0

~/test> ls /dev/md0*
/dev/md0        /dev/md0s1      /dev/md0s1a     /dev/md0s1c

~/test> sudo mdconfig -d -u 0
~/test>


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