Re: best way to migrate to a new disk

[Warner Losh]

In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107071842230.58871-100000@beppo> Matthew Jacob writes:
: tar cfl - . | (cd /altroot/<local_fs> && tar xpf -)

Don't use tar.  It loses devices, can't handle holey files well and a
number of other minor clitches.  Use dump instead.

Warner

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