From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 1 8:48:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0A3437B401 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 08:48:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from nollie.summersault.com (nollie.summersault.com [208.10.44.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E96ED43E88 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 08:48:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark-dated-1039625330.d33b7b@summersault.com) Received: (qmail 44798 invoked from network); 1 Dec 2002 16:48:50 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO nollie.summersault.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Dec 2002 16:48:50 -0000 Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 11:48:46 -0500 (EST) To: Conrad Sabatier Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dump/restore after filesystem layout changes In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Mark Stosberg X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.65 (Johnstown) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Conrad Sabatier wrote: > > Ok, now on to my question: I'd like to do a full backup on each of my > filesystems, zap all the partitions and do a new fdisk/disklabel with more > filesystems than I'm currently using. For example, create a new /home > partition instead of using a symlink in / to /usr/home. > > I'm just wondering if this will present any problems when restoring from > backups. I can't seem to glean this information from the man pages. Conrad, I did something similar once. I added a new disk that I wanted to replace my primary disk, but I wanted the partitioning a little different, like you did. It worked fine for me, copying over one partition at a time using "cpio". I imagine then it will work in your case as well. If you are interested to know about the process I used, you could browse the "disks" section on freebsddiary.org which was the basic for my methodology. -mark http://mark.stosberg.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message