Re: Fwd: Resize HAMMER filesystem

2013-05-02 Thread Sven Gaerner
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 12:43:48AM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Thursday, May 02, 2013 21:08:21 Sven Gaerner wrote: > > You would like to run something like this: > > > > $ newfs_hammer -L DATA2 /dev/serno/ABCDEF > > $ mount /dev/serno/ABCDEF /mnt > > $ mkdir /mnt/pfs > > $ hammer mirror-co

Re: Fwd: Resize HAMMER filesystem

2013-05-02 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Thursday, May 02, 2013 21:08:21 Sven Gaerner wrote: > On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 07:34:14PM +0200, Charles Rapenne wrote: > > Let imagine you have dragonfly installed on a 250 Gb disk, and you > > want to move it to a 500 Gb disk without reinstalling, how could you > > dump your existing disk and g

Re: Fwd: Resize HAMMER filesystem

2013-05-02 Thread Sven Gaerner
On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 07:34:14PM +0200, Charles Rapenne wrote: > Let imagine you have dragonfly installed on a 250 Gb disk, and you > want to move it to a 500 Gb disk without reinstalling, how could you > dump your existing disk and grow the HAMMER partition ? Please have a look at the man page.

Re: Resize HAMMER filesystem

2013-05-02 Thread Antonio Huete Jimenez
Hi Charles, You can dump the PFSes to gzipped files, this way you would not lose your history. See an example in this document: http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/howtos/howto_reinstall_hammer/ The procedure would be a bit complex as it is a manual installation. You can see the steps to be followe

Re: Resize HAMMER filesystem

2013-05-02 Thread Freddie Cash
Why via dd? Why not just rsync from one system to the other? That's how we do our backups and restores, regardless of disk sizes. On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Charles Rapenne wrote: > 2013/5/2 Antonio Huete Jimenez : > > Hi Charles, > > > > HAMMER supports multi-volume filesystems. This m

Fwd: Resize HAMMER filesystem

2013-05-02 Thread Charles Rapenne
2013/5/2 Antonio Huete Jimenez : > Hi Charles, > > HAMMER supports multi-volume filesystems. This means you can add/deletet > volumes with the directives specified in HAMMER(8) manpage. > That said, I would like to point out that it has not been widely tested as > far as I know so I would be carefu

Re: Resize HAMMER filesystem

2013-05-02 Thread Antonio Huete Jimenez
Hi Charles, HAMMER supports multi-volume filesystems. This means you can add/deletet volumes with the directives specified in HAMMER(8) manpage. That said, I would like to point out that it has not been widely tested as far as I know so I would be careful with it. What are you trying to dd exactl

Resize HAMMER filesystem

2013-05-02 Thread Charles Rapenne
Hello, How do you resize a HAMMER partition ? There is usually a command "grow_" or "resize_" to extend and sometimes shrink the filesystem, but I can't find it in HAMMER. I need to hard copy a disk with "dd", and I'd like to create the hammer filesystem very tiny at first, then grow it to take a

Re: DragonFly 3.4 released!

2013-05-02 Thread Ivan Uemlianin
Just a quick note to say these upgrade instructions are n00b-proof enough for me to upgrade successfully. Before cd /usr/src I did have to cd /usr make src-create-repo But now I am running DragonFly 3.4! Best wishes Ivan On 30/04/2013 05:24, Justin Sherrill wrote: Version 3.4 of D