From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 4 8:18:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smartwall.thebeaconjournal.com (smartwall.thebeaconjournal.com [204.210.192.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77ECB37B403 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 08:18:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@ohio.com) Received: by smartwall.thebeaconjournal.com; id LAA14659; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 11:16:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from unknown(166.108.139.2) by smartwall.thebeaconjournal.com via smap (V4.2) id xma014631; Mon, 4 Jun 01 11:16:34 -0400 Received: from [206.128.102.10] ([206.128.102.10]) by bea-mx.thebeaconjournal.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GEEW7D00.I25 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 11:26:01 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: jarnold@krcoms1.knightridder.com Message-Id: Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 11:10:07 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Jim Arnold Subject: would this dump/restore scenario work? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG When I originally installed FreeBSD 4.3R on my computer about a month ago I simply made a swap partition and then put everything under a single root partition. Over the last month I have done some changes to the install, upgrading to 4.3 release, adding a bunch of apps, etc... After reading an excellent article about fine tuning your FreeBSD system (http://apollo.backplane.com/FreeBSD/tuning.html) I would like to set up my box with separate partitions for /, /var, /var/tmp, /usr, /home and of course a swap partition. Everything is currently on a scsi drive. I have already used dump to back everything up to a new ide drive that was partitioned as one large slice. This is the command I used to do that: /sbin/dump -0a -f /max/backup.dump / ("max" is where the ide drive is mounted). Here's my question: If I nuked the scsi drive, did a clean install of 4.3R from the CD with the partitioning scheme noted above, and then did a restore from the dump file, would that work? Would restore have a problem trying to lay the files back onto a system that is not partitioned as the same from whence it came? Thanks, Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message