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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: re-organizing file systems
- Keywords: file systems
- Message-ID: <p34o9hs@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 04:52:35 GMT
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- Sender: news@zuni.esd.sgi.com (Net News)
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In <9827@fs3.cam.nist.gov> gpfrn@cam.nist.gov (Glenn_P._Forney_x6884) writes:
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- | when i originally set up my disk (a non-system disk),
- | I partitioned
- | it into three separate file systems. i thought
- | it was a good idea at the time. i would
- | like to go back to one file system. i use the new dump
- | commanded provided with 4.0 to do backups.
- | one backup for each file system. my question is
- | how best to back up my system before consolidating
- | three file systems into one. can the three dump
- | files (one for each file system) be used to restore
- | back to the new consolidated file system?
-
- Yes; just restore each one in turn. restore works through the
- filesystem, and relative to the current directory, so there
- should be no problem.
- --
- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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