Why is restore so slow?(what about using cpio -pudmv)

[Root Boy Jim]

In article <173 at skyking.UUCP> jc at skyking.UUCP (J.C. Webber III) writes:
?What I have been doing is using "find . print|cpio -pudmv /new.slice
?/usr/spool"  to move the files to a different partition while I clean
?up the /usr/spool slice.  I do a rm -r * on /usr/spool, umount it,
?fsck it, remount it and the cpio all the files back from the backup
?partition.  

Why don't you just newfs (or mkfs) rather than removing everything
and fscking? BTW, you might want to try making the filesystem with
more inodes than usual. This might not solve your problem, but
it might make it less frequent. Get a better OS if you can. Good Luck.
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	Root Boy Jim Cottrell <rbj at uunet.uu.net>
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