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 followed in the rconfig scripts (for example http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/share/examples/rconfig/hammer.sh ) HTH Cheers, Antonio Huete 2013/5/2 Freddie Cash <[email protected]> > 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 < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> 2013/5/2 Antonio Huete Jimenez <[email protected]>: >> > 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 exactly? Another HAMMER filesystem which >> resides >> > on a smaller disk to a bigger one? >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Antonio Huete >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > 2013/5/2 Charles Rapenne <[email protected]> >> >> >> >> 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 all the >> >> disk. >> >> >> >> >> >> Regards >> > >> > >> >> 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 ? >> >> I need this to install the system from a virtual machine to a remote >> host, using DD (Already did it for OpenBSD and NetBSD and I would like >> to do it with DragonFly so at least, we could install DragonFly on >> dedicated servers). >> > > > > -- > Freddie Cash > [email protected] >
