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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Artem Kazakov <a.kazakov@comptek.ru>
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cc: Tom Przybylinski <thenothingboy@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Putting /usr on a vinum striped volume?
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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