Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:50:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: drew@mykitchentable.net (Drew Tomlinson) Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Can I Rebuild / and /usr Remotely? Ideas? Message-ID: <200509202150.j8KLoA1c027151@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <43308207.6030401@mykitchentable.net>
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> > On 9/20/2005 11:28 AM Jerry McAllister wrote: > > >>On 9/20/2005 10:20 AM Jerry McAllister wrote: > >> > >>Thank you for your reply. This gives me some direction in which to > >>proceed. Since the layout is as I like now, it seems to me that I would > >>only have to dump / and then dump /usr. The restore order would be > >>first / then /usr. Is that correct? Here's my current fstab: > > > >Sounds right from what you indicate here. > > > Wait a minute. I just thought of something. I am not going to be able > to work on da0 while it's mounted, correct? Yup. > and since da0s1a is my root > partition, I'm not going to be able to unmount it until I boot from > another disk, presumably ad0. How do I set up ad0 so it will boot? > Then after making a complete copy of / and /usr on ad0, I will have to > boot from it before doing my work on da0 and da1. At that point I'll > have to do the secret incantations of fdisk and bsdlabel on da0 and > da1, build my stripe, mount everything, use dump/restore to copy the > contents of ad0 to it's respective places, and then finally reboot from > da0. Uh oh, I think this is getting complicated... :) That is what a fixit CD is for (or one of the many things). Just boot up your fixit CD and wend your way around the menus of choices until you get a prompt. Or, for that matter, do the sliceing and dicing from sysinstall on the fixit. For FreeBSd 4.xxx and before the fixit is disk 2, I believe and for FreeBSD 5.xxx and after the fixit in CD number 1. ////jerry > > Thanks, > > Drew > > -- > Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse > Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! > > http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com >
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