From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 2 04:46:54 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E13AA16A400 for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2007 04:46:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com (mu-out-0910.google.com [209.85.134.185]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 728A113C448 for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2007 04:46:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id w9so786194mue for ; Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:46:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=BPmZg+Au7BACGp1/1UEYqg6HfbDthThmV+SylI7I7G5/bFNQnN8u9GUp1eXxeFn6pyztKMLpq4x/D+BCRIi1oHa/5ycg1j4eP+uiQCCKVAWNFRgPu7szKOX0/fNoIG2rqOxGcB+/OYdB1NA++nqqFxCDWKY0TLWQsjS5KBNCEvc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=qQXXi9BN6rV6v1BJKZRCJDOUafR7Ht4kcts3nxthCYhLw6GlhcU/fYoXsia/AFkLToPM9YIE2LLUAoP8ECsYdSVG0tzdUYMh4wJKE5hAYmvRrLf7sRBOVZfpXQYecVn6dquZSn8qbyux4CMadTBeTIGuRcXKK9XiAHMQWKAWiio= Received: by 10.82.186.5 with SMTP id j5mr2473269buf.1180759612887; Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:46:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.185.16 with HTTP; Fri, 1 Jun 2007 21:46:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 23:46:52 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <18011.173.677084.310998@jerusalem.litteratus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4532A9C5-9AA1-42B6-BC29-1FCB98EBC054@goldmark.org> <20070528145326.GC24417@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <2C5ECA04-E6CD-48BC-B2DA-2B8153EB489D@goldmark.org> <20070528155109.GA10386@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <18011.173.677084.310998@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Cc: Subject: Re: How to find disk slice layout 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: Sat, 02 Jun 2007 04:46:55 -0000 On 28/05/07, Robert Huff wrote: > Roland Smith writes: > > > > > Note you do not back up the swap partition which is normally 'b' > > > > and don't do anything to the 'c' partition which is there only to > > > > describe the slice to the system and is not a true partition. > > > > You can probably skip backing up your /tmp also. > > > > > > What about /dev and /var? > > > > I'd backup /var, because it's usually small. And it also contains > > important things like your port options, and the database of > > installed packages. > > While everyone needs to e aware of their own circumstances > ... most of /var _can_ be rebuilt with varying degrees of effort. Thanks to a dying disk, I lost /var/db/pkg/, and it is a fairly major pain to recreate. In essence, you have to reinstall everything under /usr/local, though portupgrade was reasonably helpful in that regard. 95% of /var/log/ can be safely lost, but ask which 5% to keep and you'll get a shrug. -- --