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Showing posts with label FreeBSD dump restore mount repartition duplicate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FreeBSD dump restore mount repartition duplicate. Show all posts

Saturday, May 26, 2007

To repartition disk drive /duplicate file system in FreeBSD :
1. create new slice using bsdlabel
2. newfs newly created slice
3. mount it to /mnt (or wherever)
4. cd /mnt (or wherever)
5. try to minimize amount of the open files on source filesystem by killing all unnecessary daemons
6. dump -0ab 128 -C 32 -f - /dev/slicename | restore -rb 128 -f -
7. ensure backup is adequate
8. modify /etc/fstab and point new filesystem to desired mount point
9. check is everything ok throughly.
10 umount old mount point && mount new one or reboot if the live fs like e.g. /usr