10-02-2004
Dumping a FreeBSD Archive on a partiotion on Hard Disk
I have been using FreeBSD (currently 4.10, yes yes i havent updated it for a few months), and unfortunately when initially installing it onto my laptop, i made the mistake of only assigning it 3.5 GB and time has passed and I now find myself withonly 300 something MB left on the chunk, i want to assign a lager partiotion to it, and do not know how to use "growfs" or know how safe it is. I was just wondering if I were to archive the "/" directory and ship it over to one of my Windows partition. After this destroying the current partition and creating a much larger one (preferabbly 8GB +) and then using any Live CD to dump this archive onto the new partition. Would this process work or would it merely act as data dumped on the HD as opposed to an OS. If anyone knows about this or any other ways that i may go about growing my partition for FreeBSD, without the tedious task of starting from scratch, i would be very thankful.
Thanks
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LEARN ABOUT ULTRIX
disktab
disktab(5) File Formats Manual disktab(5)
Name
disktab - disk description file
Syntax
#include <disktab.h>
Description
The file is a simple data base that describes disk geometries and disk partition characteristics. The format is patterned after the termi-
nal data base. Entries in consist of a number of fields separated by colons (:). The first entry for each disk gives the names that are
known for the disk, separated by vertical bars (|). The last name given should be a long name fully identifying the disk.
The following list indicates the normal values stored for each disk entry:
Name Type Description
ns num Number of sectors per track
nt num Number of tracks per cylinder
nc num Total number of cylinders on the disk
ba num Block size for partition `a' (bytes)
bd num Block size for partition `d' (bytes)
be num Block size for partition `e' (bytes)
bf num Block size for partition `f' (bytes)
bg num Block size for partition `g' (bytes)
bh num Block size for partition `h' (bytes)
fa num Fragment size for partition `a' (bytes)
fd num Fragment size for partition `d' (bytes)
fe num Fragment size for partition `e' (bytes)
ff num Fragment size for partition `f' (bytes)
fg num Fragment size for partition `g' (bytes)
fh num Fragment size for partition `h' (bytes)
pa num Size of partition `a' in sectors
pb num Size of partition `b' in sectors
pc num Size of partition `c' in sectors
pd num Size of partition `d' in sectors
pe num Size of partition `e' in sectors
pf num Size of partition `f' in sectors
pg num Size of partition `g' in sectors
ph num Size of partition `h' in sectors
se num Sector size in bytes
ty str Type of disk (e.g. removable, winchester)
The entries can be automatically generated with the program.
Files
See Also
chpt(8), newfs(8)
disktab(5)