From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 29 13:33:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44EA016A585 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:33:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gpeel@thenetnow.com) Received: from constellation.thenetnow.com (thenetnow.com [69.90.69.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3266B43C9D for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:33:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gpeel@thenetnow.com) Received: from hpeel.ody.ca ([216.240.12.2] helo=GRANT) by constellation.thenetnow.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.54) id 1GpPYj-00060o-Tj for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:33:10 -0500 Message-ID: <001c01c713ba$e7e2be30$6501a8c0@GRANT> From: "Grant Peel" To: Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:33:07 -0500 Organization: The Net Now MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2962 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: DUMP + RESTORE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Grant Peel List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:33:17 -0000 Hi all, I know that if I dump a filesystem (lets say a full dump), that = everything says the restore filesystem needs to be at least as big as = the one the dump was made from. But I dare ask this question anyway ... If I have a filesystem that is 10 GIG, but because I am only using 2 GIG = of that can I restore it to a 3 GIg file system? I ask becuase somehow I have a 73 gig drive, but all my spare hard disks = disks are only 36 Gig. -GRant