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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
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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. ;-)