adding an extra hard disk and adding space to /usr
martinko
gamato at users.sf.net
Thu Nov 9 23:30:24 UTC 2006
Aaron Burke wrote:
>> Hello all,
> Hello Matt,
>
>> I have a machine that just had a new HD added to it as ad1
>> and I want to
>> ADD this new disk onto the already existing /usr partition.
>> What's the best
>> and safest way to do it?
> Well, I know of two options. One which sounds really cool, is kind
> of broken, and is guarteed to cause your kernel crash. So I will
> ignore the mount_union option.
>
> I am no expert on freebsd, but in my opinion tar is a good choice.
> Contrary to what others beleive, tar CAN preserve permissions, and
> file ownership. I know that in FreeBSD 4.x (been there several
> times) it can preserve filesystem permissions, and ownership of
> files.
>
> In my opinion, the safest way is to copy /usr to /mnt is via the
> following.
> 1: Comment out your existing SWAP partition (ad0s1b) in /etc/fstab.
> 2: reboot
> 3: remove your existing swap partition.
> 4: create a new filsystem on each disk that has the same size as
> your ram (1/2 of swap) on each disk. Both (by tradition) will be
> /dev/???s?b. Spanning swap to multiple disks can improve swap
> performance.
> 5: create a new UFS2 filesystem that contains the rest of the new
> hard drive.
> 6: mount the new slice as /mnt
> 7: use the following tar commands as root:
> (FreeBSD 4.x) : cd /usr; tar clpf - . | (cd /mnt; tar xvf -)
> (FreeBSD 5.x+) : cd /usr; gtar clpf - . | (cd /mnt; gtar xvf -)
> 8: edit /etc/fstab with your favorite text editor (vi) and duplicate
> the other /usr slice entries. Then comment out the original. And
> update the entry to refer to the correct slice. Next duplicate
> the entry for the other swap partition with the data for the
> other disk label). SWAP partitions are almost always end in 'b'
> 9: Due to the fact that killing off all of the applications that
> reside on /usr, its easiest to reboot. But specifically NOT a
> requirement.
>
>
> -- Aaron
>
hi,
iirc tar(1) has changed in 5.3. why do you use gtar please? is new tar
missing something?
cheers,
martin
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