Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 14:50:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> To: damaker@fillibach.de Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: moving /usr to another partition Message-ID: <200407052151.i65LouOV002134@gw.catspoiler.org> In-Reply-To: <opsaoo8tqydvpa9u@auth.smtp.kundenserver.de>
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On 5 Jul, Konstantin 'Kosta' Welke wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Diskspace is running low, so I'd like to move my /usr to another
> disk. I was told that cp -Rv is not a good idea and i should use
> dump instead. The problem is: That disk is big and half-full and
> I don't want to empty it. Is it possible to let restore work to
> a directory instead of a disk? Im not sure after reading the man
> page, google doesnt know either and I dont want to find out "the
> hard way". So i guessed it couldn't hurt to ask...
>
> If you have any hints or alternatives, please let me know!
I'm pretty sure that "restore -r" will do the right thing and just
unpack the dump archive into the current working directory. I'm pretty
sure that I've done this in the past.
I don't understand the warnings in the man page:
-r Restore (rebuild a file system). The target file system should
be made pristine with newfs(8), mounted and the user cd'd into
the pristine file system before starting the restoration of the
initial level 0 backup.
[snip]
The -r flag precludes an interac-
tive file extraction and can be detrimental to one's health if
not used carefully (not to mention the disk)
Restoring into a directory that already contains stuff is likely to be
harmful to the contents, but I think restoring into an empty directory
should be fine.
Anyone else care to comment?
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