Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 19:50:14 -0700 From: "Dave Walton" <walton@nordicrecords.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rearranging files Message-ID: <19990901025231.28745.qmail@modgud.nordicrecords.com> In-Reply-To: <19990901112711.W13904@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990901015132.28530.qmail@modgud.nordicrecords.com>; from Dave Walton on Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 06:49:13PM -0700
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On 1 Sep 99, at 11:27, Greg Lehey wrote:
> 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.
Oh, you mean like where it says in the man page for tar:
To move file hierarchies, use a command line like this:
tar -cf - -C srcdir . | tar xpf - -C destdir
I should have thought to look there...
> But the version in -STABLE and -RELEASE
> can't handle devices with large minor numbers.
I'm not sure what that means, but it sounds like a reference to /dev,
which I wasn't planning to mess with.
>
> > 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 <none> 64MB *
> > da0s1b swap 320MB SWAP
> > da0s1e <none> 64MB *
> > da0s1f <none> 1024MB *
> > da0s1g <none> 10240MB*
> > da0s1h <none> 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.
Oh, ok. Why? Historical quirk?
> But I have great doubts that
> you need even as many partitions as you have.
I've been around here long enough to have expected that comment
from you. :) I'm still toying with how I want to set up the machine
in question, but here are the details of what you see above:
da0s1a / (to be mounted readonly, perhaps)
da0s1b swap (but you knew that)
da0s1e /var
da0s1f /usr (also readonly, perhaps)
da0s1g /home (quotas enabled, so separate fs)
da0s1h /where? (app data - mysql, apache, cyrus, etc)
da0s1d? /music? (mp3 archive - could go in da0s1g, but not
da0s1h. Needs quota or separate partition, because it'll tend to
overflow.)
Any nits to pick?
Dave
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