On 28/05/07, Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Roland Smith writes:
Note you do not back up the swap partition which is normally 'b'
and don't do anything to the 'c' partition which is there only to
describe the slice to the system and is not a true partition.
You can
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 10:34:52PM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
For backup reasons I would like to get a statement of the slices on a
disk. fdisk only tells me about classic partitions. Is there some
command I can use to remind me of how I sliced that partition?
I am guessing that you
On May 28, 2007, at 9:53 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 10:34:52PM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
Is there some
command I can use to remind me of how I sliced that partition?
I am guessing that you have your terminology scrambled,
You guessed correctly. I should have
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 10:38:41AM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
Note you do not back up the swap partition which is normally 'b'
and don't do anything to the 'c' partition which is there only to
describe the slice to the system and is not a true partition.
You can probably skip backing
Roland Smith writes:
Note you do not back up the swap partition which is normally 'b'
and don't do anything to the 'c' partition which is there only to
describe the slice to the system and is not a true partition.
You can probably skip backing up your /tmp also.
What about
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 10:38:41AM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
On May 28, 2007, at 9:53 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 10:34:52PM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
Is there some
command I can use to remind me of how I sliced that partition?
I am guessing that you
If you have the resaources, do backup /var, it should not take much time.
/var contains the log files, it is nice to ave them handy when something
crashes.
Bests
Olivier
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For backup reasons I would like to get a statement of the slices on a
disk. fdisk only tells me about classic partitions. Is there some
command I can use to remind me of how I sliced that partition?
The best (and a poor approximation it is) I can come up with is to
use df to tell me the
Jeffrey Goldberg writes:
For backup reasons I would like to get a statement of the slices on a
disk. fdisk only tells me about classic partitions. Is there some
command I can use to remind me of how I sliced that partition?
man bsdlabel
On May 27, 2007, at 11:01 PM, Robert Huff wrote:
man bsdlabel
Thank you. I had tried that before posting, but was getting the
device name wrong: /dev/ad0
After seeing your response, I persisted with bsdlabel and found that
bsdlabel /dev/ad0s1
did exactly what I wanted.
I
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