Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 02:11:28 -0500 From: Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET> To: FreeBSD QUESTIONS <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: dump/restore question.. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003060204220.10546-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca>
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Evening, I have a setup with a rather large 18.3G drive on a public machine that I would like to replace with a smaller drive so that the larger drive can go into a web server. There are various reasons why I do not want to use NFS for this though. My filesystem looks like this: admin[alpha]:~> df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a 158783 23894 122187 16% / /dev/da0s1e 1002223 70289 851757 8% /var /dev/da0s1f 1002223 104 921942 0% /tmp /dev/da0s1g 1002223 503995 418051 55% /usr /dev/da0s1h 13171315 1139416 10978194 9% /usr/home procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc Let us assume that I do a level 0 dump of all filesystems, I remove this 18.3 G drive (after writing down everything I need to know as per the dump section in the handbook) and replace it with an 8 GB drive. I make /, /var, /tmp, /usr the same on the new drive as the 18.3G drive, then allocate the remaining space to /usr/home, which will be more than the 1.1G backed up by dump. When I restore from the dump, I'm sure the other filesystems will be ok, but will /usr/home choke because it is smaller than the original dump? I'm under the impression that it will work fine, though I have not tried something like this before, and this is a production server that can't be screwed up. Comments or advice on a better solution are appreciated, thank you in advance for your replies. While I'm at it, is there any news on Oracle & Cold Fusion running on FreeBSD (under Linux emulation) - the customer demand for these has gotten to the point that if I don't find a FreeBSD solution I'm going to go Solaris/Ultra for the webserver, which is not my ideal situation. Matt -- Matt Heckaman [matt@arpa.mail.net|matt@relic.net] [Please do not send me] !Powered by FreeBSD/x86! [http://www.freebsd.org] [any SPAM (UCE) e-mail] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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