Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:57:53 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Can I Rebuild / and /usr Remotely? Ideas? Message-ID: <433085E1.8010109@mykitchentable.net> In-Reply-To: <200509202150.j8KLoA1c027151@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <200509202150.j8KLoA1c027151@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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On 9/20/2005 2:50 PM Jerry McAllister wrote: >>On 9/20/2005 11:28 AM Jerry McAllister wrote: >> >> >> >>>>On 9/20/2005 10:20 AM Jerry McAllister wrote: >>>> >>>>Thank you for your reply. This gives me some direction in which to >>>>proceed. Since the layout is as I like now, it seems to me that I would >>>>only have to dump / and then dump /usr. The restore order would be >>>>first / then /usr. Is that correct? Here's my current fstab: >>>> >>>> >>>Sounds right from what you indicate here. >>> >>> >>> >>Wait a minute. I just thought of something. I am not going to be able >>to work on da0 while it's mounted, correct? >> >> > >Yup. > > > >> and since da0s1a is my root >>partition, I'm not going to be able to unmount it until I boot from >>another disk, presumably ad0. How do I set up ad0 so it will boot? >>Then after making a complete copy of / and /usr on ad0, I will have to >>boot from it before doing my work on da0 and da1. At that point I'll >>have to do the secret incantations of fdisk and bsdlabel on da0 and >>da1, build my stripe, mount everything, use dump/restore to copy the >>contents of ad0 to it's respective places, and then finally reboot from >>da0. Uh oh, I think this is getting complicated... :) >> >> > >That is what a fixit CD is for (or one of the many things). >Just boot up your fixit CD and wend your way around the menus >of choices until you get a prompt. Or, for that matter, do >the sliceing and dicing from sysinstall on the fixit. >For FreeBSd 4.xxx and before the fixit is disk 2, I believe >and for FreeBSD 5.xxx and after the fixit in CD number 1. > > Thanks. Guess it'll just be easier to physically go to the console. Not that big of a deal in this case but I wanted to try it remotely just for future reference. That way if the need arose, I could be fairly confident I could do it remotely. Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
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