Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:14:35 +0000 From: krad <kraduk@googlemail.com> To: Elias Chrysocheris <eliaschr@cha.forthnet.gr> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: / slice too small Message-ID: <d36406631002281414n1f19329cw1b70f7d45f8e46f1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201002281742.03674.eliaschr@cha.forthnet.gr> References: <20100228132654.GA2796@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> <201002281742.03674.eliaschr@cha.forthnet.gr>
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On 28 February 2010 15:42, Elias Chrysocheris <eliaschr@cha.forthnet.gr>wrote: > On Sunday 28 of February 2010 15:26:54 Frank Shute wrote: > > I've got a machine here running 7.2 which I want to upgrade to 8.0 but > > looking at the root slice it is woefully small: > > > > $ df -h > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > > /dev/ad4s2 190M 146M 29M 84% / > > devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev > > /dev/ad4s4 129G 15G 104G 12% /usr > > devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /var/named/dev > > > > I've got a CD/DVD writer on that machine along with a 100MB ethernet > > connection to my desktop. > > > > How do I go about upgrading it? Dump/restore and change the partition > > table? > > > > Any suggestions gratefully received. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Yes. The dump/restore should do the trick as long as you have another > medium > to store the dumps (such as another hard disk). You will store the images > of > your slices to the new medium using dump(8). You can then use FixIt console > to > re-partition and re-slice your hard disk and then restore(8) your images in > the newly sliced hard disk. Actually, if you have another hard disk device, > you can use piped dump/restore to copy the whole system from one disk to > the > other and make the second one your bootable disk. Of course you must have > sliced the second device first. > I've done this many times. The first was to remove an openSUSE partition I > had, > living in the same hard disk as my FreeBSD. The second time was to move my > FreeBSD to another hard disk (physical device). The new disk became my boot > disk. > The third time was to move my system to another bigger hard disk device and > at > the same time be formated as ZFS. > Now my system boots from this third hard disk device, having ZFS and the > operating system is the same as that I first installed (of cource > updated...) > > Elias > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > You might well find it easier to use rsync rather than dump. Just make sure you use the following flags rsync -aHP --numeric-ids I use it in our backup setup at work, and have restored countless freebsd boxes. When you repartition the drive remember to add the boot blocks eg fdisk -B ad0 bsdlabel -B ad0s1
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