restoresymtable after dump and restore

[eras mus]

Dear list,

Thank you for the help.
My new hard disk is working fine after the dump and restore
operation.And able to boot with new disk.
But in my /home  folder i have a restoresymtable of size 33968468
and that partition is 101% full.

Does this file(restoresymtable) has any significance?
Could i remove it by rm -rf ?
Will removing of the file cause any harm?

On 1/16/14, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jan 2014, eras mus wrote:
>
>> Dear List,
>>
>> Thank you all for the help. I understood that the old hard disk is dying.
>> I booted with a FreeBSD Live CD with the new hard disk.
>> Now it detected the old hard disk as /dev/ad4 and new one as /dev/ad7.
>>
>> Then using sysinstall did slicing and partitioning on the new hard
>> disk(ad7). Then dump and restore performed on all the partitions of
>> the old hard disk to the new hard disk partitions.
>
> While sysinstall had a reasonably nice user interface for disk
> partitioning, it was and is buggy and best avoided on current versions
> of FreeBSD.
>
>> After performing dump and restore to the new hard disk, I edited the
>> /etc/fstab of the root partition so that it will update the /etc/fstab
>> for the new hard disk partitions(ad7s1a,ad7s1d,ad7s1f ..... instead of
>> the ad4 entries in the /etc/fstab)
>>
>> Now when i try to boot the machine with both the hard disks as attached.
>> It is showing as below
>>
>> F1 FreeBSD
>> F5 Drive 1
>>
>> When i select F5 it is going to a GRUB prompt of the new hard disk
>> ,Because it already had a linux installation before doing the dump and
>> restore operation.
>>
>> As per my understanding FreeBSD  Boot Manager is not installed for the
>> new
>> hard disk. Am I right?
>
> Yes.  Use 'boot0cfg -B ad7' to install it to the new drive, or
> 'fdisk -B ad7' for a plain MBR that just boots without showing the menu.
>
> You may also need to install bootcode to the BSD partitions themselves.
> This can be done with 'bsdlabel -B ad7s1'.  I'd recommend using gpart
> instead, but you don't say what version of FreeBSD you have, and it may
> be old enough that gpart is not present.  If gpart is present, see
> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html#_the_old_standard_mbr
>