cloning a FreeBSD HDD

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday 04 April 2006 06:40, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-Apr-04 11:12:03 +0100, Khaled Hussain wrote:
> >Why does everyone talk about dump+restore as a pair? I thought it was
> >possible just to dump a filesystem to a different hard disk i.e.
> >dump -0a -f /dev/ad2 /
> 
> It is.  But /dev/ad2 will have a dumpfile on it, not a filesystem.
> The only thing that can then read /dev/ad2 is restore.
> 
> >Also, how can I find out which /boot/boot# file a freebsd system is using by
> >default?
> 
> None of the ones in the filesystem - these files are embedded into the
> beginning of the hard disk.
> 
> One of boot0, boot0sio or mbr is located in absolute sector 0 of the disk.
> boot1 is located in sector 0 of the bootable slice
> boot2 is located in the (I think) sectors 1-15 of partition a.

Actually, boot1 + boot2 occupy sectors 0,2-15 of the bootable slice (the
a partition starts at the start of the slice to be confusing) with the
actual disklabel table in sector 1 of the slice.

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