From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 23 8:43:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (cfedde.ppp.frii.com [216.17.133.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 371A937B479; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 08:43:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fedde (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.11.0/8.11.0.Beta3) with ESMTP id e9NFhWl24128; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 09:43:32 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200010231543.e9NFhWl24128@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Trent Nelson Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, jhb@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dump/restore question. In-Reply-To: <39F3FF56.3DD9103F@echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au> From: Chris Fedde Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 09:43:32 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 23 Oct 2000 17:05:26 +0800 Trent Nelson wrote: +------------------ | 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. +------------------ 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message