[SunHELP] Moving Volumes/Filesystems

[Bill Bradford]

On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 08:40:25PM -0400, robert brooke gravitt wrote:
> What is the best way to move around filesystems? I am running Solaris 9 
> on my Ultra 2 and have a puny internal drive. I'd like to relocate /var 
> , /usr, and /export/home to the new 18.3 GB external unipack now 
> attached. I formatted the unipack, and need to know what to do next. 
> Can someone get me started?

You can ufsdump/restore between partitions and use stdin/stdout.                

example# ufsdump 0f - /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s7 | (cd /home;ufsrestore xf -)           

I've done this many times; works fine.  As long as you "installboot" on
the / partition (if you're moving that) it works great.  Be sure to
modify /etc/vfstab after you move the data!

Bill

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bill bradford
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austin, texas