Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 12:14:31 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Francis A. Vidal" <francis@usls.edu> Cc: Dave Walton <walton@nordicrecords.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rearranging files Message-ID: <19990901121431.Y13904@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9909011028280.16539-100000@atlas.usls.edu>; from Francis A. Vidal on Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 10:30:01AM %2B0800 References: <19990901112711.W13904@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.LNX.4.10.9909011028280.16539-100000@atlas.usls.edu>
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On Wednesday, 1 September 1999 at 10:30:01 +0800, Francis A. Vidal wrote: > On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, 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. But the version in -STABLE and -RELEASE >> can't handle devices with large minor numbers. > > there's an example in the manpage of tar. > > tar cf - . | (cd /some/where; tar xf -) > >> No, that's the way they're allocated. But I have great doubts that >> you need even as many partitions as you have. > > is there a limit to the maximum partition? Yes, 8, one of which (the c partition) must represent the entire disk. > if there is, how do you increase the limit? You hack the kernel sources, in the process creating disks that no normal FreeBSD system will recognize correctly. But, as I said, 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
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