On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Warner Losh wrote:
> 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.
yes, tar is a horrible way to do this.
newfs /dev/whatever
mount /dev/whatever /new
cd /new
dump 0f - /dev/your-root-device | restore rf -
At least that's how I do it ...
ron
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