On 28 Aug 2002, Wolfgang Rupprecht wrote:

>         fdisk -0 -s 169 /dev/${to}
>
> The above seems to do nothing...

I think you need "-s 169/start/size" (where start and size are in
sectors).

You may be able to figure it out by first using "fsck -S" to see what
size (like DLSIZE) is okay.

> The goal of this is to do automated backups by making a fully-bootable
> and runnable snapshot from cron.  The price of tape drives and tapes
> is insane, while disks are getting cheaper all the time.

Recently, I did the same thing under Linux using sfdisk (then mkfs, lilo,
cpio).

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/