From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 28 15:38:43 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E976816A481 for ; Mon, 28 May 2007 15:38:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeffrey@goldmark.org) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2EE213C44B for ; Mon, 28 May 2007 15:38:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeffrey@goldmark.org) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3875F223911; Mon, 28 May 2007 11:38:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 28 May 2007 11:38:43 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: pRKJc6ncmRtx4S3WNO5Gg+MMh4P1STupRvNUNKBWrp3g 1180366722 Received: from [10.1.10.136] (n114.ewd.goldmark.org [72.64.118.114]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C846F29337; Mon, 28 May 2007 11:38:42 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20070528145326.GC24417@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <4532A9C5-9AA1-42B6-BC29-1FCB98EBC054@goldmark.org> <20070528145326.GC24417@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <2C5ECA04-E6CD-48BC-B2DA-2B8153EB489D@goldmark.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Jeffrey Goldberg Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 10:38:41 -0500 To: Jerry McAllister X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to find disk slice layout X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 15:38:44 -0000 On May 28, 2007, at 9:53 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 10:34:52PM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > >> Is there some >> command I can use to remind me of how I sliced that partition? > > I am guessing that you have your terminology scrambled, You guessed correctly. I should have asked to see how I "partitioned that slice" instead of "sliced that partition". Once I realized my error, it became clear that I needed to ask bsdlabel about a slice and so bsdlabel /dev/ad0s1 would have been the correct command (while I had incorrectly been trying it on /dev/ad0) > so lets straighten that first [...] Thanks for that. > Note you do not back up the swap partition which is normally 'b' > and don't do anything to the 'c' partition which is there only to > describe the slice to the system and is not a true partition. > You can probably skip backing up your /tmp also. What about /dev and /var? I'm willing to lose the log files in /var/log if it comes to it, and I don't have local mail delivery or much important that would be in out-going mail queues. I also feel that I should have put /usr/ports/distfiles on another file system, since I don't particularly care to back up those either. I guess I could just put in a symbolic link to something on / var Again, thank you. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/