On 28/05/07, Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Roland Smith writes:
> > > Note you do not back up the swap partition which is normally 'b'
> > > and don't do anything to the 'c' partition which is there only to
> > > describe the slice to the system and is not a true partition.
> > > Yo
If you have the resaources, do backup /var, it should not take much time.
/var contains the log files, it is nice to ave them handy when something
crashes.
Bests
Olivier
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On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 10:38:41AM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
> On May 28, 2007, at 9:53 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote:
>
> >On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 10:34:52PM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
> >
> >>Is there some
> >>command I can use to remind me of how I sliced that partition?
> >
> >I am gues
Roland Smith writes:
> > > Note you do not back up the swap partition which is normally 'b'
> > > and don't do anything to the 'c' partition which is there only to
> > > describe the slice to the system and is not a true partition.
> > > You can probably skip backing up your /tmp also.
> >
>
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 10:38:41AM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
> > Note you do not back up the swap partition which is normally 'b'
> > and don't do anything to the 'c' partition which is there only to
> > describe the slice to the system and is not a true partition.
> > You can probably skip ba
On May 28, 2007, at 9:53 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 10:34:52PM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
Is there some
command I can use to remind me of how I sliced that partition?
I am guessing that you have your terminology scrambled,
You guessed correctly. I should have
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 10:34:52PM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
> For backup reasons I would like to get a statement of the slices on a
> disk. fdisk only tells me about classic partitions. Is there some
> command I can use to remind me of how I sliced that partition?
I am guessing that y
On May 27, 2007, at 11:01 PM, Robert Huff wrote:
man bsdlabel
Thank you. I had tried that before posting, but was getting the
device name wrong: /dev/ad0
After seeing your response, I persisted with bsdlabel and found that
bsdlabel /dev/ad0s1
did exactly what I wanted.
I had
Jeffrey Goldberg writes:
> For backup reasons I would like to get a statement of the slices on a
> disk. fdisk only tells me about classic partitions. Is there some
> command I can use to remind me of how I sliced that partition?
man bsdlabel
Ro
For backup reasons I would like to get a statement of the slices on a
disk. fdisk only tells me about classic partitions. Is there some
command I can use to remind me of how I sliced that partition?
The best (and a poor approximation it is) I can come up with is to
use df to tell me the s
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