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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Moving /usr, /usr/src to new disk? Date: 19 Jan 1997 22:45:27 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 35 Message-ID: <5bu867$fa5@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <alcocerE49Myq.4Iu@netcom.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34277 alcocer@netcom.com (Dario Alcocer) wrote: > o run fdisk, disklabel, and newfs to setup a couple of filesystems > on new disk (ideas to do this more easily are welcome) fdisk is not mandatory in FreeBSD. You can get away with disklabel itself if your entire disk is FreeBSD, or if the fdisk table has already a FreeBSD slice. You might want to have a look at the FAQ section 2.15 on http://www.freebsd.org/. > # cd /mnt > # dump 0f - /dev/rwd0s1e | restore -rvf - > # umount /mnt umount: /mnt: Device busy :-) You need to cd away from /mnt first. Apart from this, this is okay. You may want to run rm restoresymtab before. (This file saves state across multi-level restores.) Don't forget to edit /etc/fstab... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)