On Apr 19, 2010, at 4:33 PM, Brandon High wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Brandon High <bh...@freaks.com> wrote: >> I think I remember someone posting a method to copy the boot drive's layout >> with prtvtoc and fmthard, but I don't remember the exact syntax. > > Apparently Google and the man pages know the answer. > > prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c5t0d0s2 | fmthard -s - /dev/rdsk/c6t0d0s2 > > With drives of different sizes, I expect I may need to change the > input to fmthard though. There's also a note in the man page: "On x86 > systems, fdisk(1M) must be run on the drive before fmthard."
IMHO, this is a virus. It is a lazy way for you to copy a vtoc to another disk. If the other disk is of a different size (as in sectors), then you've wasted either your time or your disk space. A better idea is to learn how to use the format(1m) command to manage your disk partitions and slices. -- richard ZFS storage and performance consulting at http://www.RichardElling.com ZFS training on deduplication, NexentaStor, and NAS performance Las Vegas, April 29-30, 2010 http://nexenta-vegas.eventbrite.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
