Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:18:42 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Giorgos Tsiapaliokas <terietor@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: resize freebsd slice Message-ID: <20100611221842.GA93623@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimHQcUYmtVls4nJPFWpXZsBvmZK9VBo6HdL6n08@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTimHQcUYmtVls4nJPFWpXZsBvmZK9VBo6HdL6n08@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 01:00:57AM +0300, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote: > i read the manuals about dump,but they say that if i take a back up of my > "/" then dump will not make a backup for /home and /usr. > my /home directory is empty but i need the /usr directory. > > what should i do? dump works on file systems, not individual files or directories. if home is something mounted separately, then you run a dump for that. Same for /usr. If /usr is just a directory under root (/) and not a separate file system, then taking a dump of / will get /usr. I don't have a list of your mounted filesystems. ////jerry > > can you help me with the syntax of the dump command? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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