backup a partition table with gpart(8)

[Andrey V. Elsukov]

On 18.11.2010 22:57, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> I'd prefer simple text dump of gpart configuration, but not as commands.
> I find myself often configure systems with more than one disk and would
> really like to just do the following:
> 
> 	# gpart backup ada0 | gpart restore ada1 ada2 ada3
> 
> This also means we either not dump labels or not restore them or we have
> additional option which will/won't restore them.

I do not like this method because it means that gpart(8) duplicates part of
functionality which geom(8) does. But i think it is very handy from user's
point of view.

-- 
WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov

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