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To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Subject: Re: Rapid Replication Strategy 
Cc: Lem Snowden <snowden@computercurrents.com>,
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 06 Apr 2000 13:29:15 +0930."
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Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 01:34:24 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <XFMail.000406132915.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> "Daniel
O'Connor" writes: 
: You should be able to make a script to fdisk/disklabel/newfs'd the drives for
: you and suck the dump off a remote system and restore it onto your freshly
: newfs'd disks.

People have been happy with diskprep:
	http://people.freebsd.org/~imp/diskprep

which does exactly this.  It even supports sucking in config files so
that you could make all the disk have 4 partitions, with one 32M, one
128M type swap, one 50M and one that's the rest of the disk.  Can't do 
it interactively, but you can with a simple config file.  Oh, and
please tune my filesystems:
    $minfree = 5;
    $opt_perf = "space";
    $part{a}{type} = "4.2BSD";
    $part{a}{size} = 32*1024*2;
    $part{b}{type} = "swap";
    $part{a}{size} = 128*1024*2;
    $part{e}{type} = "4.2BSD";
    $part{e}{size} = 50*1024*2;
    $part{f}{type} = "4.2BSD";
    $hog_part = 'f';

I gotta find someone to write a manpage for this.  :-)

Warner


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