Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 06:00:57 -0800 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: freebsd@edvax.de Cc: kes-kes@yandex.ru, roberthuff@rcn.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reduce partition size. HELP Message-ID: <4f006719./AMuNtohIrbc9KiB%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <20111231171538.fd1156fb.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <211353632.20111231040344@yandex.ru> <20222.32401.326222.536203@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <1112244537.20111231112327@yandex.ru> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1112310841430.50853@wonkity.com> <20111231171538.fd1156fb.freebsd@edvax.de>
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Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > # cd /var > # dump -0 -L -a -u -f - /dev/ad0s1a | restore -r -f - > > Make sure /var does _not_ contain directory > names identical to those found on the / partition! > As I said, maybe use /scratch. :-) Unless using a freshly newfs-ed partition, it will likely be safer to use restore -x instead of -r; see the description of -r in the restore(8) manpage.
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