RE:resize freebsd slice

2010-06-11 Thread Giorgos Tsiapaliokas
thanks for the information but the point is that i don't know how to merge s4 and s3 with sysinstall. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ques

RE:resize freebsd slice

2010-06-11 Thread Giorgos Tsiapaliokas
ok,but if i delete this 2 slices then i will delete my entire system.. then should i have to install it from the beggining,but i don't want to do that. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-quest

RE:resize freebsd slice

2010-06-11 Thread Giorgos Tsiapaliokas
i read the manuals about dump,but they say that if i take a back up of my "/" then dump will not make a backup for /home and /usr. my /home directory is empty but i need the /usr directory. what should i do? can you help me with the syntax of the dump command?

RE:resize freebsd slice

2010-06-11 Thread Giorgos Tsiapaliokas
only /home is in a diferent partition,but i don't care because i don't have any file in it (only .xinitrc,but this is not a prob) i give as a root the command "dump -0Lauf /mnt/hd/FBSD/ /dev/ad0s3a" but i receive the following error: DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sat Jun 12 01:39:31 2010

RE:resize freebsd slice

2010-06-11 Thread Chris Hill
On Sat, 12 Jun 2010, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote: only /home is in a diferent partition,but i don't care because i don't have any file in it (only .xinitrc,but this is not a prob) i give as a root the command "dump -0Lauf /mnt/hd/FBSD/ /dev/ad0s3a" but i receive the following error: DUMP: Da

RE:resize freebsd slice

2010-06-11 Thread Giorgos Tsiapaliokas
> > Is there a filesystem at /mnt/hd/FBSD/? what do u mean? the output of the command "df -h" /dev/ad0s3a 19G6.5G 11G37%/ devfs 1.0K1.0K 0B 100%/dev /dev/ad0s3d2.5G186M2.1G 8%/home /dev/da0s1 149G 62G 87G42%/mnt

RE:resize freebsd slice

2010-06-11 Thread Giorgos Tsiapaliokas
/mnt/hd/ is the directory of my external hard disk and /mnt/hd/FBSD is the directory of "FBSD" folder within the hard disk. i created the file root.dump in /mnt/hd/FBSD and i gave the command "dump -0Lauf /mnt/hd/FBSD/root.dump /" the result is: DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sat Jun 12 02:05:

RE:resize freebsd slice

2010-06-11 Thread Giorgos Tsiapaliokas
i used the "restart" option but still i had the same error. if i make my hard disk a UFS file system then the error it may be fixed. how can i do it? P.S.:i have 138 gb free space on my hard disk.:) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http:/

RE:resize freebsd slice

2010-06-11 Thread Giorgos Tsiapaliokas
ok,the dump files where created succesfully.. now i will make the formats.. after the formats how i will restore my system? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send a

RE:resize freebsd slice

2010-06-11 Thread Giorgos Tsiapaliokas
i have a problem while i am trying to restore the dump files.. i followed your instructions but when i give "restore -rf /backup/root.dump" i receive the following error: expected next file 188417,got 4 and the output of ls in the /mnt directory is: .snap restoresymtable terietor what is goi

RE:resize freebsd slice

2010-06-12 Thread Giorgos Tsiapaliokas
i have a problem while i am trying to restore the dump files.. i followed your instructions but when i give "restore -rf /backup/root.dump" i receive the following error: expected next file 188417,got 4 and the output of ls in the /mnt directory is: .snap restoresymtable terietor what is goi

RE:resize freebsd slice

2010-06-12 Thread Giorgos Tsiapaliokas
YES i have read what everyone said and yes i gave the L command when i dumped the / but i didn't mounted / as read-only when i made the dump file. Did you make a full or incremental dump? i don't know what u mean but i gave the command:"dump -0Lauf /mnt/hd/FBSD/root.dump /". the output of the co

RE:resize freebsd slice

2010-06-14 Thread Giorgos Tsiapaliokas
thanks gyus for your help but the problem is solved, i reinstall FBSD from the begging..:) thanks:) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-quest