From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 29 01:46:27 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 C890E16A507 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:46:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E55B13C48D for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:45:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l9T1jBlX006660; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:45:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id l9T1j9CH006659; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:45:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:45:08 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Jon Hamilton Message-ID: <20071029014508.GA82718@thought.org> References: <20071028215454.GA52631@thought.org> <20071028230203.GA13943@thought.org> <20071028233422.GC2196@woodstock.nethamilton.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071028233422.GC2196@woodstock.nethamilton.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 21 of service to the Unix community. Cc: Gary Kline , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: What's best way to copy a filesystem? [was: Re: slight emergency here...] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:46:27 -0000 On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 06:34:22PM -0500, Jon Hamilton wrote: > Gary Kline , said on Sun Oct 28, 2007 [03:02:03 PM]: > > } > At any rate, how do i as root, single user, cp -rp all of /var to > } > elsewhere (/storage) and rmdir /var, them mkdir /var and copy > } > everything back?? I've forgotten the cpio magic command. > } > > } The nutshelll of this posting could be: What's the best tool > } to copy a /FILESYSTEM to /storage/FILESYSTEM? > > The best tool is the one you use successfully. If you're really talking about > a whole filesystem, dump and restore may contain the least surprises in > unusual situations: > > $ newfs /dev/whatever > $ mount /dev/whatever /mnt > $ cd /dev/whatever > $ dump 0af - /old_filesystem | restore -rf - > > Then delete /mnt/restoresymtable when it's all done. > > Of course you can use tar, cpio, cpdup if you have it, or even cp. At > different points in time historically some of those have had problems with > some situations like sparse files, "extra" hard links, symlinks, etc. > Seems like I'm running into inode problems.... I finally tar'd /var to a /temp fs, then forgot to do the newfs. So now I've got a fs panic. Hope it isn't a bad drive..... thanks. gary > -- > > Jon Hamilton > hamilton@pobox.com -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org