Re: funny customers

From: Dimitri Aivaliotis (dna_at_everyware.ch)
Date: 09/22/04

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    Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 16:51:22 +0200
To: "Per Engelbrecht" <per@xterm.dk>

    On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 16:34:41 +0200 (CEST)
    "Per Engelbrecht" <per@xterm.dk> wrote:

    > Keeping in mind that alle the data from / down are important, the
    > standard procedure adding_a_disk won't work due to the dd part.
    > A simple mount (finding disk from dmesg) didn't work eighter ..
    > Both running system and disk use UFS2.
    >
    > Maybe I'm overlooking the obvious, but what besides the above would do
    > the trick ?

    Have you tried dump/restore?

    (see http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK)

    You'll be wanting the reverse of what's given here, or some variant.

    1) Use either a LiveCD, or another FreeBSD box with an extra disk.

    2) Use fdisk and disklabel to set-up the extra disk like the one on your customer's machine.

    3) Install the disk from the customer's machine.

    4) Mount both disks in appropriate places:

     /dev/(blank)s1a on /mnt/copy/
     /dev/(blank)s1f on /mnt/copy/usr
     /dev/(blank)s1d on /mnt/copy/var

     and

     /dev/(cust)s1a on /mnt/customer/
     /dev/(cust)s1f on /mnt/customer/usr
     /dev/(cust)s1d on /mnt/customer/var

     (adapt to your slice layout and disk device)

    5) dump & restore:

      cd /mnt/copy
      dump 0af - /mnt/customer/ | restore xf -

    This will take awhile, depending on the size & speed of each of the disks.

    Good luck!

    - Dimitri 

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