Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 18:00:56 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: Paul Murphy <pnmurphy@cogeco.ca>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Filesystem Full (was (No Subject)) Message-ID: <0d9aa3501230612FE6@Mail6.nc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20020106170559.42eef3c8.pnmurphy@cogeco.ca> References: <20020106162046.2dfa4beb.pnmurphy@cogeco.ca> <20020106170559.42eef3c8.pnmurphy@cogeco.ca>
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On Sunday 06 January 2002 05:05 pm, Paul Murphy wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 16:20:46 -0500
>
> Paul Murphy <pnmurphy@cogeco.ca> wrote:
> > /dev/da1s1f 663553 2764 607705 0% /usr/home
> > /dev/da1s1e 192543 183627 -6487 104% /usr/ports
> >
> > I want to switch these two filesystems, here is my plan:
> >
> > 1) back them up to /usr/tmp
You have a /usr/tmp big enough for both??
> > 2) rm -r /usr/home && rm -r /usr/ports
You can save yourself a little trouble and just mv them. It'll do all that
for you.
> > 3) edit the fstab appropriately
> > 4) umount /usr/home && umount /usr/ports
> > 5) mount /usr/home && mount /usr/ports
Sounds sensible
> > 6) cp -r /usr/tmp/home/* /usr/home && cp -r /usr/tmp/ports/* /usr/ports
Again, mv is easier & preserves all the file attributes; if you don't use mv
for some reason (extra paranoia?), use pax -rw or cp -pr or a tar-pipe to
preserve all the file attributes.
> >
> > Does this seem right? Any gotcha's? I don't want to loose any data as
> > these are fairly important filesystems (although I could cvsup ports).
>
> Sorry, I don't believe I sent that without a Subject line, please DO
> read.
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