These GUIs can be misleading since the actual underlying filesystem isn't using URL's.
To actually mount a CIFS file share(CIFS = samba shares / windows shares / etc) with mount:
[code]# /mnt/share, or wherever you mount it, should already exist and
# be an empty folder. ------- Post updated at 12:22 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:16 PM ----------
dd isn't psychic. dd won't know and cannot know what space is occupied, that's handled at the filesystem level. You need to use filesystem-specific tools to handle that, and how that's done depends on the filesystem type.
Three options:
1) Do it manually. Save your boot sector and /etc/fstab so you know what kind of partitions belong where, then create tarballs of the contents of every partition. By restoring the boot sector, 'w'-ing it inside 'fdisk', re-creating empty partitions and un-taring their contents in them, you ought to create a bootable system.
2) Cheat, forcing an ordinary dd dump to compress better. Boot a livecd and mount partitions, then 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/partition/bigfile bs=1048576 ; rm /mnt/partition/bigfile' to overwrite all unused space with zeroes. When you make your dd dump, it should now compress very well when piped through gzip because all empty space will contain zeroes.
3) Use partiton-specific tools. (dump can understand ext2/ext3)
I usually do option 1, myself, since it allows you to create a new system with different partition sizes on restore, though it's fiddly and a lot more work.
So, to the smb server in for example, /mnt/share, I shall first mkdir /mnt/share; and then
Code:
mount -t cifs //safe/mysharedfolder -o username=user,password="password" /mnt/share
right?
-about the first option of taking backup, could you clarify it for me with an example? I don't know about /etc/fstab n how to take my partition from there n tar them.
Hello,
Anyone out there can help on this problem?
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prompt off
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
installgrub
installgrub(1M)installgrub(1M)NAME
installgrub - install GRUB in a disk partition or a floppy
SYNOPSIS
/sbin/installgrub [-fm] stage1 stage2 raw-device
The installgrub command is an -only program. GRUB stands for GRand Unified Bootloader.
installgrub installs GRUB stage 1 and stage 2 files on the boot area of a disk partition. If you specify the -m option, installgrub
installs the stage 1 file on the master boot sector of the disk.
The installgrub command accepts the following options:
-f
Suppresses interaction when overwriting the master boot sector.
-m
Installs GRUB stage1 on the master boot sector interactively.
The installgrub command accepts the following operands:
stage1
The name of the GRUB stage 1 file.
stage2
The name of the GRUB stage 2 file.
raw-device
The name of the device onto which GRUB code is to be installed. It must be a character device that is readable and writable. For disk
devices, specify the slice where the GRUB menu file is located. (For Solaris it is the root slice.) For a floppy disk, it is
/dev/rdiskette.
Example 1: Installing GRUB on a Hard Disk Slice
The following command installs GRUB on a system where the root slice is c0d0s0:
example# /sbin/installgrub /boot/grub/stage1
/boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c0d0s0
Example 2: Installing GRUB on a Floppy
The following command installs GRUB on a formatted floppy:
example# mount -F pcfs /dev/diskette /mnt
# mkdir -p /mnt/boot/grub
# cp /boot/grub/* /mnt/boot/grub
# umount /mnt
# cd /boot/grub
# /sbin/installgrub stage1 stage2 /dev/rdiskette
/boot/grub
Directory where GRUB files reside.
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Evolving |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
boot(1M), fdisk(1M), fmthard(1M), kernel(1M), attributes(5)
Installing GRUB on the master boot sector (-m option) overrides any boot manager currently installed on the machine. The system will always
boot the GRUB in the Solaris partition regardless of which fdisk partition is active.
24 May 2005 installgrub(1M)