Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 15:37:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Francisco Reyes <francisco@natserv.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Planning to re-partition. Restore questions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9809211535370.11562-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199809192324.TAA10071@federation.addy.com>
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On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Francisco Reyes wrote: > Since I no longer have plans for OS/2 I deleted the Logical partition > where it was. > > I want to use re-partition my drive. > Currently have: > Os2 Boot manager > Win95 > ---->Unused > Dos partition > FreeBSD > > I tried to use the unused part for a Freebsd slice, but it did not work. I > seem to recall there is some kind of limitation to the number of Primary > partitions on a hard drive. You're out of slices. You'll need to wipe one out and rebuilt it to take advantage of the space. > Now to the question > What is the minimum I have to do before I can use my tape to do a restore? Make sure the tape is detected at boot time? I'd also do a sample dump/restore just to make sure you know how to resurrect the system. > Also can I restore to differently mounted volumes > For instance I currently have: > / > /usr > /var > > And plan to have: > / > /usr > /var > /usr/X11R6 > > When I restore /usr from a tape will the data currently in /usr/X11R6 go > into this new filesystem? Should be OK. When you restore it it should spread the files into the new heirarchy. Any reason you're splitting off X? Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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