On Tue, 2006-Apr-04 11:12:03 +0100, Khaled Hussain wrote: >Why does everyone talk about dump+restore as a pair? I thought it was >possible just to dump a filesystem to a different hard disk i.e. >dump -0a -f /dev/ad2 /
It is. But /dev/ad2 will have a dumpfile on it, not a filesystem. The only thing that can then read /dev/ad2 is restore. >Also, how can I find out which /boot/boot# file a freebsd system is using by >default? None of the ones in the filesystem - these files are embedded into the beginning of the hard disk. One of boot0, boot0sio or mbr is located in absolute sector 0 of the disk. boot1 is located in sector 0 of the bootable slice boot2 is located in the (I think) sectors 1-15 of partition a. -- Peter Jeremy _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
