Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 15:00:19 -0500 (EST) From: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/75865: comments on "backup-basics" in handbook Message-ID: <20050105200019.3F0C9217B5@yertle.kcilink.com> Resent-Message-ID: <200501052000.j05K0rqf077634@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 75865 >Category: docs >Synopsis: comments on "backup-basics" in handbook >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed Jan 05 20:00:53 GMT 2005 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Vivek Khera >Release: FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE i386 >Organization: >Environment: System: FreeBSD yertle.int.kciLink.com 4.10-STABLE FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE #12: Tue Jul 13 13:13:38 EDT 2004 khera@yertle.int.kciLink.com:/u/yertle2/usr.obj/u/sources/usr/src/sys/YERTLE i386 >Description: I was following the notes in Section 16.11.8.2 After the Disaster of the handbook at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/backup-basics.html to repartition a server running 5-STABLE. I ran into problems with running restore since the root partition (and thus the /tmp dir) has only a few hundred blocks free when you boot from the fixit CD. Restore will quickly fill up the space and the restore will fail. >How-To-Repeat: boot to fixit floppy and run 'restore' on a good sized partition. the dump file was about 200k blocks. >Fix: set environment variable TMPDIR to some suitably large place or mount a ramdisk for /tmp. I'm not sure what the instructions to do the latter would be, as I was lucky enough to have a suitable place to set TMPDIR to. Please add some commentary on setting TMPDIR and/or mounting a reasonably large /tmp via MFS to let restore succeed. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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