Re: funny customers

From: Per Engelbrecht (per_at_xterm.dk)
Date: 09/23/04

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    Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:19:10 +0200 (CEST)
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    Hi Dimitri

    >
    >> 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!

    (sorry for this late reply, but something came up)
    First of all I appreciate your thorough answer very much.
    I'll have a go at the livecd/cd2 first and let you and the rest of you
    know the result. Thank you.

    respectfully
    /per
    per@xterm.dk

    >
    > - Dimitri
    >
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