Disk copy

[Roman Kurakin]

Joerg Pernfuss:

>On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 00:34:59 +0300
>Roman Kurakin <rik at inse.ru> wrote:
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>>How this will deal with partition table? File is not partition copy,
>>it is full copy of entire disk with partition table etc.
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>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).
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Thanks! I was unaware of such behaviour. It is really works and I can access
my backup images.

rik

>~/test> ls -l
>-rw-r--r--  1 elessar  users  20971520 18 Feb 23:09 container
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>~/test> file container
>container: x86 boot sector
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>~/test> sudo mdconfig -a -t vnode -f container -u 0
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>~/test> ls /dev/md0*
>/dev/md0        /dev/md0s1      /dev/md0s1a     /dev/md0s1c
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>~/test> sudo mdconfig -d -u 0
>~/test>
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