From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 11 14:01:30 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA17950 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Oct 1995 14:01:30 -0700 Received: from gvr.win.tue.nl (root@gvr.win.tue.nl [131.155.210.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA17905 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 1995 14:00:05 -0700 Received: by gvr.win.tue.nl (8.6.10/1.53) id VAA04611; Wed, 11 Oct 1995 21:58:11 +0100 From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) Message-Id: <199510112058.VAA04611@gvr.win.tue.nl> Subject: Re: Hard disk copying To: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 21:58:11 +0100 (MET) Cc: itemple@elysium.CLare.tased.EDU.AU, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9510101239.AA14874@wavehh.hanse.de> from "Martin Cracauer" at Oct 10, 95 01:39:16 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 322 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > I ususally use > > newfs /dev/target_partition > #mount it > cd /mount_of_new_filefilesystem > dump 0sf 400000 - /usr_or_whatever | restore rf - > But it is rediculously slow when there are lots of dir entries. I think it should improve when the file system which is restored to is mounted with option async. -Guido