Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 12:45:11 -0800 From: Pete Shipley <shipley@merde.dis.org> To: Hinrich Eilts <eilts@late.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Cloning a hard disk/system Message-ID: <199502132045.MAA12371@merde.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 13 Feb 1995 10:52:10 %2B0100. <199502130952.KAA07203@late5.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de>
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> >Does above tar-solution work with files containing holes? I have >a file (on HPUX at work, but a similar is at home on FreeBSD) > >late5(eilts):infosystems/WWW/cgi-etc: ll idx-usr-man_i.pag >-rw-r--r-- 1 www www 247309312 Feb 12 10:42 idx-usr-man_i.pag >late5(eilts):infosystems/WWW/cgi-etc: du idx-usr-man_i.pag >12320 idx-usr-man_i.pag > >"cp", "cpio", ... expands it to full size resulting in a full disk. > I have always used " dump | ( cd /mnt restore ) " to get this done (and it is a tad faster then cp(1) )
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