From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Dec 18 14:53:18 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id OAA03843 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 14:53:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id OAA03824 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 14:53:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA08500; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 23:51:15 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA11260; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 23:51:09 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id XAA24183; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 23:31:05 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199612182231.XAA24183@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: good way to add disks? To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD SCSI list) Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 23:31:05 +0100 (MET) Cc: sadmin@roundtable.cif.rochester.edu Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199612181628.QAA14500@deacon.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> from Richard Tobin at "Dec 18, 96 04:28:32 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Richard Tobin wrote: > You should be able to do a dump onto the raw disk device, without even > making a file system on it. Not if you think of `dump' in terms of dump(8)/restore(8). Only if you think of `dump' in terms of dd(1) -- but who would be willing to do this these days? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)