Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:45:49 +0100 From: Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> To: jeffry killen <jekillen@prodigy.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Salvage files from harddrive Message-ID: <20091229134549.GA90870@Alex1.lan> In-Reply-To: <2cd283d1fad03837950ef165cf75756c@prodigy.net> References: <2cd283d1fad03837950ef165cf75756c@prodigy.net>
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On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 04:07:51AM -0700, jeffry killen wrote: > I have a hard drive that contains the /var file system in a system that > will not boot. > In single user mode I can mount /var. > > I want to take this disk and put it in another FreeBSD system and > try to copy the files I need off of it to a safe place. > > The system I will plug it into will also have a separate disk with > /var. > > Is there going to be a conflict with the labels and how would I > best go about this? I've changed the size of the disk slices by copying files over to a nother disk, boot from that one and later back. I would suggest using 'rsync -aHW source dest" And later remove with 'chflags -R noschg source; rm -rf source' -- Alex
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