disk block failing on root disk on sun blade 1000

[Joerg Wunsch]

As fddi wrote:

> so my question is how can I backup the rootfs and restore it with its 
> boot block when I replace the root disk partition with a brand new disk ?

sunlabel da0 > /tmp/label
sunlabel -Bw da1 /tmp/label

should work, IMHO.

Afterwards, create and mount the filesystem, and dump | restore.
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