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Date:      Fri, 25 Feb 2000 15:09:59 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Streamlining FreeBSD installations across many machines
Message-ID:  <200002252309.PAA42555@vashon.polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <200002251737.JAA70913@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
References:  <200002251737.JAA70913@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>

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In article <200002251737.JAA70913@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, Rodney W. Grimes
<freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote:

> A much faster way to do this is to just dd the first few megabytes
> of the disk (dd if=foo of=/dev/rXXd bs=32768 count=1024).  Then use
> dump | restore to populate the disk.

Do you run newfs on the receiving disk before the dump|restore?  It
seems like if you didn't then the free block bitmaps in the cylinder
groups would contain garbage.

John
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  John Polstra                                               jdp@polstra.com
  John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                        Seattle, Washington USA
  "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence."  -- Chögyam Trungpa



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