On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 10:17:50AM +0200, Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 09:48:27PM -0600, Tim Pushor typed: > > Hi all, > > > > I do CPIO style image backups of my FreeBSD systems. In the event that I > > need to restore one of these backups, I usually use the FreeBSD > > installation media to fdisk and create filesystems, then mount the new > > filesystems and restore the CPIO archive. > > > > This system works great for me, but I would like to automate the > > restoration process. I have worked a little with fdisk and disklabel > > back in FreeBSD 2.x days (and trying early versions of OpenBSD) but > > wouldn't really know where to start automating that process. ( I do > > write code, but the thought of trying to use disklabel to read the > > geometry of the disks, calculate sizes, cylinder boundaries, etc give me > > a headache ) > > > > I would really like to specify minimum sizes of partitions and > > filesystems, with one having all the excess (rather than having to count > > cylinders). > > > > I've done some searching on Google and havn't really come up with > > anything conclusive. > > > > Can anyone point me in the right direction? > > Sounds like you want to use sysinstall in batch mode. The manpage > sysinstall(8) gives a detailed explanation on how to do this.
See also the diskprep port that was committed a few days ago. Kris
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