On 01-Dec-2002 Mark Stosberg wrote: > On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Conrad Sabatier wrote: >> >> Ok, now on to my question: I'd like to do a full backup on each of my >> filesystems, zap all the partitions and do a new fdisk/disklabel with >> more filesystems than I'm currently using. For example, create a new >> /home partition instead of using a symlink in / to /usr/home. >> >> I'm just wondering if this will present any problems when restoring from >> backups. I can't seem to glean this information from the man pages. > > Conrad, > > I did something similar once. I added a new disk that I wanted to > replace my primary disk, but I wanted the partitioning a little > different, like you did. It worked fine for me, copying over one > partition at a time using "cpio". I imagine then it will work in > your case as well. If you are interested to know about the process I > used, you could browse the "disks" section on freebsddiary.org which was > the basic for my methodology. > > -mark > > http://mark.stosberg.com/
Cool. I'll definitely check it out. And if this all goes well, I'll maybe do a little write-up on the methodology involved that you could use on your site. Thanks. -- Conrad Sabatier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
