On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Conrad Sabatier wrote: > > Ok, now on to my question: I'd like to do a full backup on each of my > filesystems, zap all the partitions and do a new fdisk/disklabel with more > filesystems than I'm currently using. For example, create a new /home > partition instead of using a symlink in / to /usr/home. > > I'm just wondering if this will present any problems when restoring from > backups. I can't seem to glean this information from the man pages.
Conrad, I did something similar once. I added a new disk that I wanted to replace my primary disk, but I wanted the partitioning a little different, like you did. It worked fine for me, copying over one partition at a time using "cpio". I imagine then it will work in your case as well. If you are interested to know about the process I used, you could browse the "disks" section on freebsddiary.org which was the basic for my methodology. -mark http://mark.stosberg.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
