Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 22:18:34 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p7 i386 system drive imaging and migration Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1701292206450.71961@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <516b147d-6faa-b9c0-1d8f-2313a0755211@holgerdanske.com> References: <df0c81d7-fd2b-852f-4007-5fb4b24100e0@holgerdanske.com> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1701290622500.13432@wonkity.com> <516b147d-6faa-b9c0-1d8f-2313a0755211@holgerdanske.com>
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On Sun, 29 Jan 2017, David Christensen wrote: > On 01/29/17 05:27, Warren Block wrote: >> On Sat, 28 Jan 2017, David Christensen wrote: >> >>> What is the proper way to clone a FreeBSD system image from one drive >>> to another? >> >> On encrypted ZFS? I'm not sure there is a brute-force way that is >> trustworthy. Using higher-level commands to recreate the partitions, >> GELI encryption, and then zfs send | recv are certain safer and won't >> duplicate supposedly unique IDs. > > STFW > > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/backup-basics.html > > toor@freebsd:/root # gpart show > => 63 31277169 ada0 MBR (15G) > 63 1 - free - (512B) > 64 31277160 1 freebsd [active] (15G) > 31277224 8 - free - (4.0K) > > => 0 31277160 ada0s1 BSD (15G) > 0 4194304 1 freebsd-zfs (2.0G) > 4194304 4194304 2 freebsd-swap (2.0G) > 8388608 22888544 4 freebsd-zfs (11G) > 31277152 8 - free - (4.0K) > > > It appears that my FreeBSD image lives within what Microsoft and Linux would > call a single MBR primary partition (FreeBSD "slice"?), and that FreeBSD > further subdivides that into boot, swap, and root sections (FreeBSD > "partitions"?). Yes. I think the 11.0 installer made the mistaken assumption that machines that boot from BIOS must (or should) use MBR/disklabel. > STFW RTFM there is information scattered in many places. Is there a concise > document that explains what is relevant for creating, cloning, migrating, > etc., FreeBSD 11 r7 system drives -- what the on-disk data structures are, > how to back up them and their contents, how to recreate the structures on a > blank drive, how to restore contents, how to deal with size, identifier, > serial number, crypto key, etc., changes, etc.? Not that I know of. What you are talking about is a combination of numerous different systems. I talk about partitioning here: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html But if you are using encryption, that means GELI (geli(8)). >>> What is the proper way to move a HDD or SSD with a FreeBSD system >>> image from one computer to another computer? >> >> Provided the binaries have not been optimized for one CPU, just move the >> drive. Disk drive names can change, which is not a problem when labels >> are used. > > It looks like I got lucky on device names. Where are slice/ partition/ > filesystem labels documented, notably the strategies and procedures for using > them? See glabel(8). >> Ethernet interface names can change. If there is only one >> interface, use ifconfig_DEFAULT in /etc/rc.conf. > > Regarding the network interface, my /etc/rc.conf contains shell variable > assignments. What am I to assign to 'ifconfig_DEFAULT'? Usually, SYNCDHCP: ifconfig_DEFAULT="SYNCDHP" It functions the same as ifconfig_em0 or _re0 or whatever, but for all interfaces with no other settings. > RTFM 'ifconfig_DEFAULT' I draw blank: > > toor@freebsd:/root # grep ifconfig_DEFAULT /etc/rc.conf /etc/defaults/rc.conf > toor@freebsd:/root # man rc.conf | grep ifconfig_DEFAULT setenv PAGER less man rc.conf Type /ifconfig_DEFAULT and press Enter. > The Xfce application issues appeared both when: > > 1. The FreeBSD system drive image was copied to another drive and then > booted in the source machine. > > 2. The FreeBSD system drive was booted in another machine. > > > What is causing the Xfce issues? No idea. I have moved hard drives from one machine to another, and in fact wrote an installer that sets up FreeBSD to be used on a generic machine with Xfce.
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