Nick Holland wrote: > ... > In general, it seems to be bad to drastically change the disklabel on a > running system (i.e., changing the beginning and ending points of a > currently mounted partition). > > HOWEVER, if you can do it from bsd.rd, it should be no problem.
I was booting from a live CD on the target system and running various commands via SSH against the source. I could copy fine (using dd, tar, rsync and dump), but lack the knowledge about how to zap the disklabels/partitions/repartition all at once. > The one-line part is just a dangerous stunt, really. Make one error, > and it goes bad quickly. That's the fun of it. :O -Lars
