From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 2 7:50:55 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 560C337B401 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 07:50:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF13043ED1 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 07:50:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id gB2Fop211192; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 10:50:51 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200212021550.gB2Fop211192@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Re: dump/restore after filesystem layout changes To: conrads@cox.net Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 10:50:51 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Conrad Sabatier" at Dec 01, 2002 10:40:58 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] 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 > > First of all, I just gotta say: ATAPICAM rocks!!! I can now use my ATAPI > CD burner with dump/restore! Awesome!!! > > 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. No problem. Just think out the order in which you do things - such as, build all your file systems first, make sure that you restore file systems that contain mountpoints before restoring the filesystems that use the mountpoints, etc. So, build your file systems including /, /usr, /var and /home, etc whatever. restore root (/) first touch up /etc/fstab if needed restore other file systems such as /usr restore stuff file systems mounted in /usr such as maybe /usr/local if you have one etc. ////jerry > > Thanks! > > -- > Conrad Sabatier > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message