Hi, On 24 January 2010 am 00:19:34 Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:15:19AM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > On 23 January 2010 am 01:12:19 John wrote: > > > 1) Create a "migrate" account in Wheel with home as > > > /var/migrate so that I can do a dump/restore on "home" > > > without messing things up > > > > Are you sure? Use /usr to make sure you will have enough > > space. > > You are making the rash and probably incorrect assumption that > /usr is the largest partition/filesystem. Many people, > including I, make /home or another partition be the large one. > The OP may also have done that.
so true. > > > It might be easier for you to run both machines and move > > first the simple things over. > > > > > 7) Nuke /home and /var/mail and migrate them again to get > > > the latest version 8) Do the real switch > > Move/migrate them first. Don't make assumptions about what the > OP has on /home. This was written by him not me. > > But, I agree, if possible, use a second machine with V 8.0 > installed and migrate to it. > > Otherwise, make full backups, check them for readability. Then > do a new install of FreeBSD V8. Add a large disk and pull > stuff out of your dump to it and then migrate that stuff piece > by piece back to the machine main filesystems. It sounds to me that his main problem is that it is a life system and he wants to avoid down-time. Not this easy. > Erich _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
