Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 20:55:34 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@HiWAAY.net> To: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Cc: Richard McIntyre <rem@tco2.thecompanyonline.com> Subject: Re: Hard Drive Issues Message-ID: <E3C449BE-89D4-47FE-8F41-94C53842FB7D@HiWAAY.net> In-Reply-To: <20061107234435.GB74330@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> References: <003a01c6ee0a$841e74f0$6908a8c0@pcmoperations> <dab71e150610121054s2c4fd6bdh88372c1143e29cd7@mail.gmail.com> <20061012182206.GA81008@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <452FE303.90002@tco2.thecompanyonline.com> <452FEAD6.7030800@tomjudge.com> <4550FF54.80908@tco2.thecompanyonline.com> <20061107234435.GB74330@Grumpy.DynDNS.org>
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Thinking about this a bit more. Don't mount all your new partitions before starting dump. Only mount the new root at /mnt. I think you *can* mount them all in advance but there are two sets of mode bits which apply to a mounted filesystem, those of the filesystem, and those of its mount point. I think if you let restore create the mount points you will most accurately clone the permissions. /tmp is particularly different. On Nov 7, 2006, at 5:44 PM, David Kelly wrote: > Use dump to read the old drive one partition at a time piped thru > stdout > into restore. Double check the following as I'm typing off the top > of my > head: > > # dump -0af - / | ( cd /mnt; restore -rf - ) In copying / you should now have the mount points for other filesystems. # mount /dev/<newdisk_etc> /mnt/etc > # dump -0af - /etc | ( cd /mnt/etc; restore -rf - ) # mount /dev/<newdisk_var> /mnt/var > # dump -0af - /var | ( cd /mnt/var; restore -rf - ) ... -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
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