On June 19, 2023 8:57:34 PM GMT+02:00, "Pau A.S."
<lamarededeusen...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I would like to newfs /usr/local
>
>I have copied the contents to a different partition as root.
>
>My guess is that I would have to bring up the system in single user mode.
>
>My problem is that when I do that, /usr/local does not exist because it has
>not been mounted.
Well, that's kind of the point with going into single user mode. You wouldn't
want the filesystem mounted while newfs'ing the underlying device.
> I can however identify the UIID with fstab:
>
>afafa9bd7395733b.b none swap sw
>afafa9bd7395733b.a / ffs rw 1 1
>afafa9bd7395733b.h /home ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2
>afafa9bd7395733b.d /tmp ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2
>afafa9bd7395733b.f /usr ffs rw,nodev 1 2
>afafa9bd7395733b.l /usr/X11R6 ffs rw,nodev 1 2
>afafa9bd7395733b.g /usr/local ffs rw,wxallowed,nodev 1 2
>afafa9bd7395733b.e /var ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2
>
>I can also see the name of the dev with df,
>
>Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
>/dev/sd1a 988M 787M 152M 84% /
>/dev/sd1h 393G 349G 24.9G 94% /home
>/dev/sd1d 989M 51.9M 888M 6% /tmp
>/dev/sd1f 3.9G 1.3G 2.4G 36% /usr
>/dev/sd1l 497M 429M 43.2M 91% /usr/X11R6
>/dev/sd1g 12.6G 10.7G 1.3G 90% /usr/local
>/dev/sd1e 249M 118M 119M 50% /var
>
>My question is: Do I run this upon rebooting as single user?
>
>$ newfs afafa9bd7395733b.g
#, but yes. ;)
>
>and then reboot and, as root,
>
>$ cp -pR /path-to-backup-copy/* /usr/local
>
>?
Assuming your paths are correct, that looks like it, yes.
However since you probably want to copy in single user mode, you could just
# newfs ...
# fsck -p
# mount -a
# <copy the files back>
# reboot (or just exit to go multiuser)
/Alexander
>
>Thanks
