Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:10:08 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Artem Kazakov <a.kazakov@comptek.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Putting /usr on a vinum striped volume? Message-ID: <20041111170718.W11792@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <41932A51.2090605@comptek.ru> References: <20041111061111.61992.qmail@web41128.mail.yahoo.com> <41932A51.2090605@comptek.ru>
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On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Artem Kazakov wrote: > Tom Przybylinski wrote: >> >> Would someone be so kind as to point me at a HOWTO >> where I can RTFM on moving my /usr to a freshly >> vinum'd stripey vol? > now either dump /usr or tar it and then restore or untar consequently. > > If you choose tar do the following: > tar -C /usr -cpf - . | tar -C /mnt/new_usr -xpvf - > To use dump you need some additional disk space to store dump-file. The "Huge-New-Disk" section of the FAQ shows how to use dump and restore without a temporary file. Pretty much the same as tar shown here, but dump/restore should be safer. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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