Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 11:10:07 -0400 From: Jim Arnold <jim@ohio.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: would this dump/restore scenario work? Message-ID: <a0501047bb74146297151@[206.128.102.10]>
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When I originally installed FreeBSD 4.3R on my computer about a month ago I simply made a swap partition and then put everything under a single root partition. Over the last month I have done some changes to the install, upgrading to 4.3 release, adding a bunch of apps, etc... After reading an excellent article about fine tuning your FreeBSD system (http://apollo.backplane.com/FreeBSD/tuning.html) I would like to set up my box with separate partitions for /, /var, /var/tmp, /usr, /home and of course a swap partition. Everything is currently on a scsi drive. I have already used dump to back everything up to a new ide drive that was partitioned as one large slice. This is the command I used to do that: /sbin/dump -0a -f /max/backup.dump / ("max" is where the ide drive is mounted). Here's my question: If I nuked the scsi drive, did a clean install of 4.3R from the CD with the partitioning scheme noted above, and then did a restore from the dump file, would that work? Would restore have a problem trying to lay the files back onto a system that is not partitioned as the same from whence it came? Thanks, Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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