Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 10:38:41 -0500 From: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to find disk slice layout Message-ID: <2C5ECA04-E6CD-48BC-B2DA-2B8153EB489D@goldmark.org> In-Reply-To: <20070528145326.GC24417@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <4532A9C5-9AA1-42B6-BC29-1FCB98EBC054@goldmark.org> <20070528145326.GC24417@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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On May 28, 2007, at 9:53 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 10:34:52PM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > >> Is there some >> command I can use to remind me of how I sliced that partition? > > I am guessing that you have your terminology scrambled, You guessed correctly. I should have asked to see how I "partitioned that slice" instead of "sliced that partition". Once I realized my error, it became clear that I needed to ask bsdlabel about a slice and so bsdlabel /dev/ad0s1 would have been the correct command (while I had incorrectly been trying it on /dev/ad0) > so lets straighten that first [...] Thanks for that. > Note you do not back up the swap partition which is normally 'b' > and don't do anything to the 'c' partition which is there only to > describe the slice to the system and is not a true partition. > You can probably skip backing up your /tmp also. What about /dev and /var? I'm willing to lose the log files in /var/log if it comes to it, and I don't have local mail delivery or much important that would be in out-going mail queues. I also feel that I should have put /usr/ports/distfiles on another file system, since I don't particularly care to back up those either. I guess I could just put in a symbolic link to something on / var Again, thank you. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/
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