Not sure what happened to the original poster here... Anyway I was just thinking there's the system util 'pax' which is very good for copying filesystems (handles permissions, symlinks, irregular files quite well).
There's a few lines on it in one of the FreeBSD articles I think... mmm ok it's quite a small section - 4.2 in this article: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media/x211.html The text is here: > 4.2 Copying the Contents of Disks > Submitted By: Renaud Waldura (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > > To move file from your original base disk to the fresh new one, do: > > # mount /dev/ad2 /mnt > # pax -r -w -p e /usr/home /mnt > # umount /mnt > # rm -rf /usr/home/* > # mount /dev/ad2 /usr/home I've used pax in the past to migrate filesystems with success. Jez _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
