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From: Paul Murphy <pnmurphy@cogeco.ca>
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On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 18:00:56 -0500
"Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> wrote:
> On Sunday 06 January 2002 05:05 pm, Paul Murphy wrote:
> > On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 16:20:46 -0500
> >
> > Paul Murphy <pnmurphy@cogeco.ca> 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 <me reads man page>hmm</me reads man
page>
> > >
> > > 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.
>
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