Hello,
I send my great thanks to whom replied with useful answers:
1. Mr. Brian O'Connor <boc_at_ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au>
2. Mr. Thomas Leitner <tom_at_finwds01.tu-graz.ac.at>
3. Mr. Gary Barber <gbarber_at_telecom.ie>
4. Mr. Ian Piumarta <piumarta_at_prof.inria.fr>
5. Mr. Eugene Chu <chu_at_musp0.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
6. Mr. Larry Church <lchurch_at_Centus.COM>
7. Mr. Jude T. Cruz <jude_at_tsi.com.my>
8. Mr. Alan Rollow <alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com>
The most clear & well guiding answer was from Mr. Brian O'Conner
as follows:
Assumptions:
old disk rz0
new disk is rz2 of type rz28
/ mounted on a
swap on b
/usr mounted on g
Steps:
MAKEDEV rz2
disklabel -r -w rz2 rz28
newfs /dev/rrz2a rz28
newfs /dev/rrz2g rz28
fsck /dev/rrz2a
mount /dev/rz2a /mnt
dump 0f - / | (cd /mnt; restore xf -)
edit /mnt/etc/fstab to replace rz0 with rz2 by:
vi /mnt/etc/fstab
:%s/rz0/rz2/g
if swapdefault exists, remove it and re-create it to point at the
new swap partition.
umount /mnt
fsck /dev/rrz2a
fsck /dev/rrz2g
mount /dev/rz2g /mnt
dump 0f - /usr | (cd /mnt; restore xf -)
umount /mnt
fsck /dev/rrz2g
shutdown and boot from the new disk
Note: You might need to recompile the kernel.
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Mr. Thomas Leitner advised upon his own practical exercise which is
working succussful and based on ADVFS as follows:
vdump 0uf - / | vrestore -x -D /mnt/newroot
vdump 0uf - /usr | vrestore -x -D /mnt/newusr
if advfs root domain exists then make sure when using disklabel to
use the option "-t advfs" instead of "-t ufs".
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Dear members, that was my first query through this group and I'm
indeed happy with this experiment... Thankx all.
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Nadia Hashim Saad.
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Received on Thu Mar 06 1997 - 09:53:29 NZDT