I needed to expand a /var partition, which required saving and restoring /var and /usr
did the following: booted to backup disk dump -0aR -h 0 -f /usr/backup/dump_var_0_20121113_1920 /dev/ada0p4 (repeat for /tmp, /usr, / partitions to be safe) repartitioned the main disk using gpart newfs the modified partitions (var, tmp, usr) rewrote the boot block and boot partition (#1) mount /dev/ada0p4 /mnt/ssd/var cd /mnt/ssd/var restore -r /usr/backup/dump_var_0_20121113_1920 Cannot find file dump list Any ideas why I get the "Cannot find file dump list"? What / where is it supposed to be? I was able to get some stuff back from one of the files, but only by doing: #restore -if /usr/backup/dump_usr_0_201121113_1920 restore > verbose restore > add libdata restore > extract Extract requested files You have not read any tapes yet If you are extracting just a few files, start with the last volume and work towards the first; restore can quickly skip tapes that have no further files to extract. Otherwise, begin with volume 1. Specify next volume #: 1 Mount tape volume 1 Enter "none" if there are no more tapes otherwise enter tape name (default: /usr/backup/dump_usr_0_20121113_1920) unknown tape header type -2 abort [yn] n resync restore, skipped 786 blocks extract file ... ... Add links Set directory mode, owner, and times. Set owner / mode for '.' [yn] y restore > If I did not enter <Enter> after the "otherwise enter tape name", but rather entered "none" I did not get all of the desired contents. Can anyone shed light on this problem? I have been able to restore most everything from a cp I had done at the same time, but I'm not very confident in the results. Fortunately, user data was on a different disk. Obviously, should have done a restore -rN ... before repartitioning. Ugh. Related question: I now realize I should not have answered "y" to the set owner / mode question, as it changed the mode to the default for root instead of doing what I thought which was restoring the owner / mode to what was saved in the dump. Will restore -x /usr/backup/dump... correct the owner and mode? (and group and flags?) Thanks, Gary _______________________________________________ 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"