RE: [cobalt-users] "Failsafe" full restore procedure

["Goade, Matthew" <mgoade@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here is what I get in cfdisk. If I select the unusable space, I cannot create new, delete, anything.
Do I need to umount /home first? I don't see why...

cfdisk 2.10m

                              Disk Drive: /dev/hda
                            Size: 40020664320 bytes
              Heads: 16   Sectors per Track: 63   Cylinders: 77545

    Name        Flags      Part Type  FS Type          [Label]        Size (MB)
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    hda1        NC          Primary   Linux raid autodetect              786.54
    hda5        NC          Logical   Linux                               31.49
    hda6        NC          Logical   Linux raid autodetect              134.71
    hda3                    Primary   Linux raid autodetect              210.06
    hda4                    Primary   Linux raid autodetect             5035.04
                                      Unusable                         33822.87









-----Original Message-----
From: Gerald Waugh [mailto:gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 1:36 PM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] "Failsafe" full restore procedure


On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Toby Miller wrote:

> Matthew Goade wrote:
>
> >Notes: cfdisk reports the unused space as unusable. I cannot(to my
> >knowledge) make a partition out of it.
> >I do not have sufficient space on / to tar /home onto it in order to resize
> >/home.
>
> Matthew,
>
> Assuming the /home partition is large enough to hold a copy of itself I
> think you could tar /home up into itself and then ftp the tar to another
> machine whilst you resize the partition.  I believe this should work.
<snip>
> Login as root ==> su -
> Make a temp directory ==> mkdir /home/hometmp
> CD to the new directory ==> cd /home/hometmp
> Tar a copy of /home ==> tar cvf home.tar /home
> Shut down all services ==> /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd stop
>

just a little suggestion,
you can make the tar file considerably smaller by using
tar czvf home.tar.gz
'z' to create a gzip tar compressed file


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