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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: new partition, newfs
Date: 5 Oct 1996 20:20:11 GMT
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sergios@prometheus.hol.gr (Sergios) wrote:

> I suppose after creating the filesystem, I can copy everything with
> (cd /usr/local; tar cf - .)|(cd /mnt; tar xfv - ), right? but how do I

Yep.

> use the newfs. man page is a little cryptic. It says I must use
> disklabel first...

Have a look at section 2.15 in the most recent FAQ (on the Webserver).

-- 
cheers, J"org

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