On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:10:20AM -0700, James Harrison wrote: > On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 10:41 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 05:38:20PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: > > > > > I have / on one slice, and [usr,tmp,var] on others. I want to move > > > just / to a new disk, which seemed to be what rsync -x ("do not cross > > > filesystems") was intended for. It failed, however, as df shows 20k > > > blocks in /, and rsync filled up the target slice with 50k blocks, so > > > obviously it blew right past the 'end' of / - did I miss something? Is > > > there no other way except to umount [tmp,usr,var]? > > > > I would use dump/restore. > > > > Build the filesystem in the new disk partition with fdisk, bsdlabel > > and newfs as needed. Then mount the new partition somewhere - > > example: > > mkdir /newpart > > mount /dev/ad1s1a /newpart > > (presuming new disk is ad1, slice is 1, partition is a) > > Doesn't hurt to do an fsck on it here before writing to it, but it > > probably isn't really needed. > > > > Then, run the dump/restore > > > > cd /newpart > > dump 0af - / | restore -rf - > > > > This will get all of / as you want. The other mountpoints for /tmp, /usr > > and /var will be copied, but not the contents of those filesystems. You > > probably want that. > > > > ////jerry > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Steve > > Everyone's recommending dump/restore for copying file systems, and > there's something that I've never really been clear on.
The advantage of dump/restore is that it will handle all file situations correctly. Most of the other copy schemes miss on something, such as hard links. It is easy to use. > > The nice thing about rsync is that it's network aware. Can dump dump a > file system across a network? > Rsync is OK, especially if you want to set up something for a regular scheduled copy/update, but may be too much for making a single copy. ////jerry > James > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"