From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 5 20:00:54 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62C1E16A4D0 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 20:00:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2793F43D54 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 20:00:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j05K0seE077641 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 20:00:54 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j05K0rqf077634; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 20:00:53 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Resent-Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 20:00:53 GMT Resent-Message-Id: <200501052000.j05K0rqf077634@freefall.freebsd.org> Resent-From: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org (GNATS Filer) Resent-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Resent-Reply-To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, Vivek Khera Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 459E516A4CE for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 20:00:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from yertle.kcilink.com (yertle.kcilink.com [65.205.34.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E396643D31 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 20:00:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from khera@kcilink.com) Received: by yertle.kcilink.com (Postfix, from userid 100) id 3F0C9217B5; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 15:00:19 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <20050105200019.3F0C9217B5@yertle.kcilink.com> Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 15:00:19 -0500 (EST) From: Vivek Khera To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.113 Subject: docs/75865: comments on "backup-basics" in handbook X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Vivek Khera List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 20:00:54 -0000 >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: