From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 4 8:46:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from moek.pir.net (moek.pir.net [209.192.237.190]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF57F37B7B0 for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 08:46:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pir@pir.net) Received: from pir by moek.pir.net with local (Exim) id 12nNpY-0006wi-00 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 04 May 2000 11:46:24 -0400 Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 11:46:24 -0400 From: Peter Radcliffe To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: size of root (was Re: Debugging Kernel....) Message-ID: <20000504114624.A24640@pir.net> Reply-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from ronald@klop.yi.org on Thu, May 04, 2000 at 04:11:51PM +0200 X-fish: < X-Copy-On-Listmail: Please do NOT Cc: me on list mail. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ronald Klop probably said: > PS: another way to do this is dump a backup, reinstall a minimum FreeBSD > with different sizes and restore the backup. You don't have to reinstall a minimum freebsd to restore. The fixit floppy has restore on it. I tend to resize machines by dumping to spare local disk or NFS disk, booting from the install floppies, using them to resize them and then using the fixit floppy to restore. P. -- pir pir@pir.net pir@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message