disklabel messup.

[illoai at gmail.com]

On 3/11/06, Steve P. <rczero at mail.com> wrote:
> I have been reading up on how to "clone" a disk, so I can boot into a copy. Seems like some say tar can do it, but I have seen a place that said to only use dump.

I tend to use pax, since it's a bit more straightforward* than tar for copying,
but dump/restore is the one true way, if you have an investment in the
validity of the copy.

tar (and pax) require that you make the slice bootable (via bsdlabel or else-
wise), the dump and restore cycle cares not a whit for such conventions.

*lies, pax is about as backwards and arcane as you could possibly
hope for.
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