In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rodney W. Grimes
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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                                               [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                        Seattle, Washington USA
  "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence."  -- Chögyam Trungpa



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