From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 6 16:33: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fep8.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2685237B425 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 16:32:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from earth.upton.net (d141-18-230.home.cgocable.net [24.141.18.230]) by fep8.cogeco.net (Postfix) with SMTP id DD1CC575B; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 19:32:42 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 19:32:42 -0500 From: Paul Murphy To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Filesystem Full (was (No Subject)) Message-Id: <20020106193242.50a03fc8.pnmurphy@cogeco.ca> In-Reply-To: <0d9aa3501230612FE6@Mail6.nc.rr.com> References: <20020106162046.2dfa4beb.pnmurphy@cogeco.ca> <20020106170559.42eef3c8.pnmurphy@cogeco.ca> <0d9aa3501230612FE6@Mail6.nc.rr.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.6claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.4) X-Face: %`O\>ue)JTOw*1L"cm|-S$os3*E{a"4D2O~kv*V{{Wl`]xxMc.q+0haZ;?#^OM93$.ce{%5J^q2y?b`34cn])eqUz600g[F|>7M(>&~)}mR7\+GS Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 18:00:56 -0500 "Brian T.Schellenberger" wrote: > On Sunday 06 January 2002 05:05 pm, Paul Murphy wrote: > > On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 16:20:46 -0500 > > > > Paul Murphy wrote: > > > /dev/da1s1f 663553 2764 607705 0% /usr/home > > > /dev/da1s1e 192543 183627 -6487 104% /usr/ports > > > > > > I want to switch these two filesystems, here is my plan: > > > > > > 1) back them up to /usr/tmp > > You have a /usr/tmp big enough for both?? > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a 49583 33439 12178 73% / /dev/da0s1f 792401 355863 373146 49% /usr /dev/da1s1f 663553 2764 607705 0% /usr/home /dev/da1s1e 192543 109677 67463 62% /usr/ports /dev/da0s1e 19815 2059 16171 11% /var /dev/mlxd0c 10088196 953953 8327188 10% /stuff procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc I built this box back in the day when I was new to FreeBSD, and so did not know the best filesystem juggling. I am just now regretting some choises :-( Fortunatly the mylex array of this particular machine (HP Netserver) has recently become supported. > > > 2) rm -r /usr/home && rm -r /usr/ports > > You can save yourself a little trouble and just mv them. It'll do all that > for you. > > > > 3) edit the fstab appropriately > > > 4) umount /usr/home && umount /usr/ports > > > 5) mount /usr/home && mount /usr/ports > > Sounds sensible > > > > 6) cp -r /usr/tmp/home/* /usr/home && cp -r /usr/tmp/ports/* /usr/ports> > Again, mv is easier & preserves all the file attributes; if you don't use mv > for some reason (extra paranoia?), use pax -rw or cp -pr or a tar-pipe to > preserve all the file attributes. > I forgot about tar, don't know pax hmm > > > > > > Does this seem right? Any gotcha's? I don't want to loose any data as> > > these are fairly important filesystems (although I could cvsup ports).> > > > Sorry, I don't believe I sent that without a Subject line, please DO > > read. > > -- > Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) > Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) > http://www.babbleon.org > > -------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! (let him go home) <----------- > > http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- I call it "No-Pants Wonderday," but it turns out the police just call it "Thursday." Go figure. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message