Scripted fdisk/slice/fs generation?

[Tim Pushor]

Kris,

That is *exactly* what I was looking for. Thank you!

I was trying to avoid the sysinstall route if possible.

Tim

Kris Kennaway wrote:

>On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 10:17:50AM +0200, Ruben de Groot wrote:
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>>On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 09:48:27PM -0600, Tim Pushor typed:
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>>>Hi all,
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>>>I do CPIO style image backups of my FreeBSD systems. In the event that I 
>>>need to restore one of these backups, I usually use the FreeBSD 
>>>installation media to fdisk and create filesystems, then mount the new 
>>>filesystems and restore the CPIO archive.
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>>>This system works great for me, but I would like to automate the 
>>>restoration process. I have worked a little with fdisk and disklabel 
>>>back in FreeBSD 2.x days (and trying early versions of OpenBSD) but 
>>>wouldn't really know where to start automating that process. ( I do 
>>>write code, but the thought of trying to use disklabel to read the 
>>>geometry of the disks, calculate sizes, cylinder boundaries, etc give me 
>>>a headache )
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>>>I would really like to specify minimum sizes of partitions and 
>>>filesystems, with one having all the excess (rather than having to count 
>>>cylinders).
>>>
>>>I've done some searching on Google and havn't really come up with 
>>>anything conclusive.
>>>
>>>Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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>>Sounds like you want to use sysinstall in batch mode. The manpage
>>sysinstall(8) gives a detailed explanation on how to do this.
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>See also the diskprep port that was committed a few days ago.
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>Kris
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