On Wednesday 31 March 2010, krad wrote:
> On 31 March 2010 10:22, Mike Clarke
wrote:
> > On Saturday 20 March 2010, Mike Clarke wrote:
[snip]
> > > I have two 500GB disks, /dev/ad4 and /dev/ad8, each partitioned
> > > into 4 slices of 88, 88, 42 and 259GB. My system is installed on
> > > the f
On 31 March 2010 10:22, Mike Clarke wrote:
> On Saturday 20 March 2010, Mike Clarke wrote:
>
> > I'm currently running 8.0-RELEASE and am considering experimenting
> > with 8.0-STABLE. I'd like to preserve my existing system in case
> > things go pear-shaped so I'll copy the entire system onto a
On Saturday 20 March 2010, Mike Clarke wrote:
> I'm currently running 8.0-RELEASE and am considering experimenting
> with 8.0-STABLE. I'd like to preserve my existing system in case
> things go pear-shaped so I'll copy the entire system onto a spare
> slice and then use csup to upgrade the copy to
On Sunday 21 March 2010, Modulok wrote:
> On 3/20/10, Mike Clarke wrote:
[snip]
> > I have two 500GB disks, /dev/ad4 and /dev/ad8, each partitioned
> > into 4 slices of 88, 88, 42 and 259GB. My system is installed on
> > the first slices (ad4s1 and ad8s1) which are mirrored as
> > /dev/mirror/g
How valuable is your data?
I recommend you make an offline backup. There's a lot of steps in your
procedure which introduce room for error. You could perhaps disconnect
one of the hard drive's data cable (same thing). Also, make a backup
copy of your geom meta data somewhere.
Other than that, you
I'm currently running 8.0-RELEASE and am considering experimenting with
8.0-STABLE. I'd like to preserve my existing system in case things go
pear-shaped so I'll copy the entire system onto a spare slice and then
use csup to upgrade the copy to STABLE. Normally I'd go through the
steps of bsdl
