Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 09:43:32 -0600 From: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Trent Nelson <tpnelson@echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, jhb@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dump/restore question. Message-ID: <200010231543.e9NFhWl24128@fedde.littleton.co.us> In-Reply-To: <39F3FF56.3DD9103F@echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au>
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On Mon, 23 Oct 2000 17:05:26 +0800 Trent Nelson wrote:
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| I want to change the working size of the slice I've allocated to
| FreeBSD from 4GB to 8GB (the whole disk). I'm not confident recreating
| all the relevant partitions using newfs(8) and would rather rely on the
| 4.1-RELEASE install CD I have.
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Do I understand that you are changing the slice under your whole freebsd
install?
An option might be to re-label the "other" 4Gig slice and create
a freebsd partition there for one of your larger directories. Move
/home to this new partition for example.
But if you really want to rebuild everything it might be just as easy to do
a complete re install then selectively recover stuff from your backups.
YMMV
chris
PS. You can trust the procedure shown in the description of the
-r option in the restore manual. In that context "Pristine" means
newfs'ed but used for anything else yet. The -r option restores
the contents of the dump without checking to see if the filesystem
is used for anything else.
--
Chris Fedde
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