On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Mark wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joshua Oreman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 4:08 PM > Subject: Re: Ghost for FreeBSD > > > > > > cd /mnt/root > > > > /sbin/dump -L -f- /|restore -rf- > > > > cd /mnt/var > > > > /sbin/dump -L -f- /var|restore -rf- > > > > cd /mnt/usr > > > > /sbin/dump -L -f- /usr|restore -rf- > > > > > > I have heard this before, but I never understand this part. :) How > > > does creating a /mnt/root directory, and restoring in that directory > > > get my / slice back? Then the restored data will just sit > > > in /mnt/root! What good does it there? > > > > > > Or should I create /mnt/root as partition, about equal in size to the > root > > > To mirror the root partition to another: > > # mkdir /mnt/root > > # mount /dev/<ROOT-MIRROR-DEV> /mnt/root > > # cd /mnt/root > > # /sbin/dump -f- / | restore -rf- > > > > You will not *need* to umount the root partition. > > Ok; what you have done is made a dump on the root mirror device; great! But > how do I now tell FreeBSD to use that "restored" partition as /? Edit > /etc/fstab to effect the change for the next boot? I have a nagging > suspicion it will then still boot off the old / slice. > > - Mark
Editing /mnt/root/etc/fstab and updating it with the new entries. Perhaps you can make a script so that after the dump/restore.. it'll copy /etc/fstab.new to /mnt/root/etc/fstab - the fstab.new file is basically the device names of the new device. The next boot thing is easy. If you've ever had more than one HD on the machine with OSes on both the first and second HD's and used FreeBSD's Boot Manager... The first thing FreeBSD will show is the BootManager which goes something like this: F1 FreeBSD F5 FreeBSD If you don't do anything, it will always boot with F1 which is the first drive. F5 is the second drive, I don't remember the exact name as it varies. So if you hit F5, it will use the /etc/fstab on the second drive as it will use that drive to boot up. Cheers, Vince - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Vice President ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"