From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 22 11:46:16 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DC3316A41B for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:46:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sat@cenkes.org) Received: from heka.cenkes.org (heka.cenkes.org [208.79.80.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62A0413C442 for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:46:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sat@cenkes.org) Received: from amilo.cenkes.org (ppp85-141-135-37.pppoe.mtu-net.ru [85.141.135.37]) (Authenticated sender: sat) by heka.cenkes.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB410242F82E; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 14:46:14 +0300 (MSK) Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 14:46:13 +0300 From: Andrew Pantyukhin To: Gabor Kovesdan Message-ID: <20071222114612.GJ96716@amilo.cenkes.org> References: <476CE1E1.90800@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <476CE1E1.90800@FreeBSD.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT amd64 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: How to install with journaled /? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: infofarmer@FreeBSD.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:46:16 -0000 On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 11:07:29AM +0100, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: > Hello, > > my problem is that I cannot really turn on gjournal for existing > filesystems, just only if the journal is placed onto another partition. So, > how can I make a journaled root filesystem? I have to do the partitioning > manually, since sysinstall does not support that. But how can I do that > easily? The livefs CD does not work, there is no gjournal utility there. > I'd give FreeSBIE or Frenzy a try, but their existing releases are based on > 6.2, not 7.0, thus no gjournal there. Do you have any ideas? How did you > solve such a problem? I'd try the following: 1. 2 PC's: boot one from another using PXE and NFS 2. 2 HDD's: install on one, partition the other as needed and dump-restore data to it 3. Swap hack: install the root stuff in the swap slice, then enable gjournal on the first one and dump-restore data. Then bsdlabel swap as swap. I can probably come up with more :-)