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From: Trent Nelson <tpnelson@echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au>
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	I want to change the working size of the slice I've allocated to
FreeBSD from 4GB to 8GB (the whole disk). I'm not confident recreating
all the relevant partitions using newfs(8) and would rather rely on the
4.1-RELEASE install CD I have.


From restore(8):

  -r    Restore (rebuild a file system).  The target file system should
        be made pristine with newfs(8),  mounted and the user cd'd  into
        the pristine file system before starting the restoration of the
        initial level 0 backup.

	With reference to the word "pristine" above, my question is can I
restore my 5.0 system to the file systems I'll create with the 4.1
installation utility? Or does this violate the definition of "pristine"?

	Would creating the partitions then rm -rf *'ing everything, then
attempting to restore -r work? Or alternatively, can I create all the
partitions and not have to install anything?

	Given I'd like to get the system exactly how it is now, just with
bigger partitions, are there any aspects that dump/restore wouldn't
cover? For example, changed boot blocks or something?

	Thanks in advance.

		Trent.

PS: If newfs(8) is the only option, would I be able to construct a list
of the newfs commands I'd use and just have someone give me a 'yay' or
'ney' as to their correctness?


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