Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 23:46:52 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to find disk slice layout Message-ID: <d7195cff0706012146s9ce89f9s4c053758ee6d2977@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <18011.173.677084.310998@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <4532A9C5-9AA1-42B6-BC29-1FCB98EBC054@goldmark.org> <20070528145326.GC24417@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <2C5ECA04-E6CD-48BC-B2DA-2B8153EB489D@goldmark.org> <20070528155109.GA10386@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <18011.173.677084.310998@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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On 28/05/07, Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> wrote: > Roland Smith writes: > > > > > Note you do not back up the swap partition which is normally 'b' > > > > and don't do anything to the 'c' partition which is there only to > > > > describe the slice to the system and is not a true partition. > > > > You can probably skip backing up your /tmp also. > > > > > > What about /dev and /var? > > > > I'd backup /var, because it's usually small. And it also contains > > important things like your port options, and the database of > > installed packages. > > While everyone needs to e aware of their own circumstances > ... most of /var _can_ be rebuilt with varying degrees of effort. Thanks to a dying disk, I lost /var/db/pkg/, and it is a fairly major pain to recreate. In essence, you have to reinstall everything under /usr/local, though portupgrade was reasonably helpful in that regard. 95% of /var/log/ can be safely lost, but ask which 5% to keep and you'll get a shrug. -- --
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