On Monday 04 May 2009 15:59:14 Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:31:16AM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > > > If you have kept the right information beforehand, you can actually > > restore your dumps onto ``bare metal'' without doing a partial install > > first, and with the same newfs settings for each partition as you > > originally had. You need to use bsdlabel and dumpfs -m and keep the > > output for rebuilding. The rest of this message is the details. > > If you have a specific reason to want your new filesystems' to have > identical superblock info, you can use dumpfs -m, but you don't need > to worry about all that. Just fdisk, bsdlabel and then let newfs > take its defaults.
Which of your filesystems currently has softupdates disabled? You may not care - but the point is that using dumpfs in the way I described will preserve that information (along with all the other tuning options) for people who do care. If you're restoring a complete machine from backup, the less you have to think about, the better. Knowing that my filesystems are going to be restored with whatever tuning options I was previously running with, without my having to try and remember, gives me peace of mind ahead of time. Jonathan _______________________________________________ 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"
