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Date:      Tue, 9 Dec 2003 16:16:16 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To:        Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fsck sig 11 (cannot alloc 4216257920 bytes for inoinfo)
Message-ID:  <20031209161412.X25346@carver.gumbysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <20031209000004.36d4a1b9.itetcu@apropo.ro>
References:  <20031208181611.1a358bb5.itetcu@apropo.ro> <20031209000004.36d4a1b9.itetcu@apropo.ro>

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On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:

> Maybe I wasn't clea. This is what I did:

You weren't :)

> 1. Booted from CDROM, newfs, install minimal, etc.
>
> 2. Booted from ad0 to see the system up.
>
> 3. Booted from ad3 and dump/restore the ad3 partitions to ad0 using the
> -L swich for dump, as the partition ad3 partition where mounted.

sounds good.
> > then copy the data over
> > using tar instead of dump/restore.  Tar like this should be close enough:
> >
> > tar -C / -cpf - | tar -C /newroot/ -xpvf -
>
> The FAQ explicitly says not to use tar but dump/restore. "You should
> never use anything but dump(8) and restore(8) to move the root
> filesystem"

Thats only if you care about hardlinks and file flags (schg).  It doesn't
cause a wrecked system, though.

> > edit /newroot/etc/fstab, change entries

Did you remember to do this? If not you may have been fscking with the
wrong fsck, and fsck from 4.x will trip over a UFS2 filesystem that a 5.x
install would have created.

-- 
Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org



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