From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 20 21:50:12 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 8D6DD16A41F for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 21:50:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02EA243D46 for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 21:50:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.2) with ESMTP id j8KLoABn027152; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:50:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.2/Submit) id j8KLoA1c027151; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:50:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200509202150.j8KLoA1c027151@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: drew@mykitchentable.net (Drew Tomlinson) Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:50:10 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <43308207.6030401@mykitchentable.net> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL7] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Can I Rebuild / and /usr Remotely? Ideas? 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: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 21:50:12 -0000 > > On 9/20/2005 11:28 AM Jerry McAllister wrote: > > >>On 9/20/2005 10:20 AM Jerry McAllister wrote: > >> > >>Thank you for your reply. This gives me some direction in which to > >>proceed. Since the layout is as I like now, it seems to me that I would > >>only have to dump / and then dump /usr. The restore order would be > >>first / then /usr. Is that correct? Here's my current fstab: > > > >Sounds right from what you indicate here. > > > Wait a minute. I just thought of something. I am not going to be able > to work on da0 while it's mounted, correct? Yup. > and since da0s1a is my root > partition, I'm not going to be able to unmount it until I boot from > another disk, presumably ad0. How do I set up ad0 so it will boot? > Then after making a complete copy of / and /usr on ad0, I will have to > boot from it before doing my work on da0 and da1. At that point I'll > have to do the secret incantations of fdisk and bsdlabel on da0 and > da1, build my stripe, mount everything, use dump/restore to copy the > contents of ad0 to it's respective places, and then finally reboot from > da0. Uh oh, I think this is getting complicated... :) That is what a fixit CD is for (or one of the many things). Just boot up your fixit CD and wend your way around the menus of choices until you get a prompt. Or, for that matter, do the sliceing and dicing from sysinstall on the fixit. For FreeBSd 4.xxx and before the fixit is disk 2, I believe and for FreeBSD 5.xxx and after the fixit in CD number 1. ////jerry > > Thanks, > > Drew > > -- > Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse > Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! > > http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com >