Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 11:27:12 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Dave Walton <walton@nordicrecords.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rearranging files Message-ID: <19990901112711.W13904@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990901015132.28530.qmail@modgud.nordicrecords.com>; from Dave Walton on Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 06:49:13PM -0700 References: <19990901015132.28530.qmail@modgud.nordicrecords.com>
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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 <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. 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
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