From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 2 4:37:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59C2737B401 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 04:37:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from ip68-14-62-49.no.no.cox.net (ip68-14-62-49.no.no.cox.net [68.14.62.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A902643EBE for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 04:37:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from ip68-14-62-49.no.no.cox.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ip68-14-62-49.no.no.cox.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gB2Cb1sP065294; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 06:37:27 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from conrads@ip68-14-62-49.no.no.cox.net) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by ip68-14-62-49.no.no.cox.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gB2CatSo065293; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 06:36:55 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.3 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 06:36:55 -0600 (CST) Reply-To: conrads@cox.net Organization: A Rag-Tag Band of Drug-crazed Hippies From: Conrad Sabatier To: Mark Stosberg Subject: Re: dump/restore after filesystem layout changes Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG 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 01-Dec-2002 Mark Stosberg wrote: > On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Conrad Sabatier wrote: >> >> Ok, now on to my question: I'd like to do a full backup on each of my >> filesystems, zap all the partitions and do a new fdisk/disklabel with >> more filesystems than I'm currently using. For example, create a new >> /home partition instead of using a symlink in / to /usr/home. >> >> I'm just wondering if this will present any problems when restoring from >> backups. I can't seem to glean this information from the man pages. > > Conrad, > > I did something similar once. I added a new disk that I wanted to > replace my primary disk, but I wanted the partitioning a little > different, like you did. It worked fine for me, copying over one > partition at a time using "cpio". I imagine then it will work in > your case as well. If you are interested to know about the process I > used, you could browse the "disks" section on freebsddiary.org which was > the basic for my methodology. > > -mark > > http://mark.stosberg.com/ Cool. I'll definitely check it out. And if this all goes well, I'll maybe do a little write-up on the methodology involved that you could use on your site. Thanks. -- Conrad Sabatier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message