Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 18:50:07 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Steve Franks <bahamasfranks@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: can't make an 'a' slice except with auto-defaults Message-ID: <20100203185007.b2d41157.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <539c60b91002030942r1349452ds6c0a9f71ea498fb0@mail.gmail.com> References: <539c60b91002021859h6761ef1fk244d69000e089c65@mail.gmail.com> <20100203151808.GC15086@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <539c60b91002030926r28d67355u3930058b9fc759d7@mail.gmail.com> <20100203183722.06ead46a.freebsd@edvax.de> <539c60b91002030942r1349452ds6c0a9f71ea498fb0@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 10:42:42 -0700, Steve Franks <bahamasfranks@gmail.com> w= rote: > > Why so complicated? The command > > > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0# newfs /dev/ad1 >=20 > I'm looking to mirror/dup/image the entire system to something I can > stick in another system. =20 Sorry, my misunderstanding. I thought you're intending to use the second disk as a pure data disk. > I hear there's good reasons for not > running my whole system off of a single partition.=20 The example above would not only create one single partition, it would furthermore omit the slice containing it. :-) --=20 Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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