From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 31 18:58:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E0C614E89 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 18:58:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA07013; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 11:27:13 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA86726; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 11:27:12 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 11:27:12 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Dave Walton Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rearranging files Message-ID: <19990901112711.W13904@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990901015132.28530.qmail@modgud.nordicrecords.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990901015132.28530.qmail@modgud.nordicrecords.com>; from Dave Walton on Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 06:49:13PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 31 August 1999 at 18:49:13 -0700, Dave Walton wrote: > What is the best way to move everything from one partition (not > slice) to another, larger partition? I was looking at 'cp -pR', but that > doesn't quite do it right - hard-linked files become multiple copies. tar will do this correctly. But the version in -STABLE and -RELEASE can't handle devices with large minor numbers. > As long as I'm posting... > I was just looking at a disk with the disklabel editor in sysinstall, > and saw this: > > Part Mount Size Newfs > ---- ----- ---- ----- > da0s1a 64MB * > da0s1b swap 320MB SWAP > da0s1e 64MB * > da0s1f 1024MB * > da0s1g 10240MB* > da0s1h 10240MB* > > If I were to create another partition on that disk, it would become > da0s1d. Is it normal for 'd' to be the last partition created, or did I > somehow do something strange to make it work out that way? No, that's the way they're allocated. But I have great doubts that you need even as many partitions as you have. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message