Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 00:00:04 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro> To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fsck sig 11 (cannot alloc 4216257920 bytes for inoinfo) Message-ID: <20031209000004.36d4a1b9.itetcu@apropo.ro> In-Reply-To: <20031208123533.N15361@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <20031208181611.1a358bb5.itetcu@apropo.ro> <20031208123533.N15361@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 12:38:32 -0800 (PST) Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> wrote: > On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > > > I've sent the mesage on question with no reply so I'm trying my luck > > here. I am able to reproduce both dump/restore and the fsck errors, even > > after a fdisk-ing, labeling and newfs-ing (from the sysinstall). > > > > The nice thing is that everithing seems to be ok (e.g. on new system > > install it comes up and run OK) untill the first unclean shutdown, when > > fsck complaines about the UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY. > > I think you caused some major braindamage by copying over a running > system. You should boot the original disks (ad3s2a), re-newfs the ad0 > partitions, mount them (example is /newroot for the a partition, make > directories as needed and mount other partitions), Maybe I wasn't clea. This is what I did: 1. Booted from CDROM, newfs, install minimal, etc. 2. Booted from ad0 to see the system up. 3. Booted from ad3 and dump/restore the ad3 partitions to ad0 using the -L swich for dump, as the partition ad3 partition where mounted. > then copy the data over > using tar instead of dump/restore. Tar like this should be close enough: > > tar -C / -cpf - | tar -C /newroot/ -xpvf - The FAQ explicitly says not to use tar but dump/restore. "You should never use anything but dump(8) and restore(8) to move the root filesystem" > edit /newroot/etc/fstab, change entries > > Unmount the new partitions then reboot to the new disks. If it works, > you're all good. If not you have a fallback. I'm writting now using the fallback :) > I'm not sure dump/restore works to disks of different sizes. Again the faq ... http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK Am I missing anything here ? -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user
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