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I'm going to be re-partitioning the primary disk on our Solaris 2.5
machine.  I'll be backing up the entire system, using format to
re-define the partition table, creating the new filesystems then
restoring each filesystem into its appropriate slice.  When I restore
the root slice, I assume that the vfstab file will not correspond to
the new structure of my disk.

How do I compensate for this?  Create a new vfstab file before doing
the backup?  Edit the vfstab file once the system is restored? (Is
this possible at all?)

Cheers

Warren

Email me for more details, if you like.

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Milburn) cost the 'net hundreds, if not thousands of dollars to say:

Quote:>I'm going to be re-partitioning the primary disk on our Solaris 2.5
>machine.  I'll be backing up the entire system, using format to
>re-define the partition table, creating the new filesystems then
>restoring each filesystem into its appropriate slice.  When I restore
>the root slice, I assume that the vfstab file will not correspond to
>the new structure of my disk.

>How do I compensate for this?  Create a new vfstab file before doing
>the backup?  Edit the vfstab file once the system is restored? (Is
>this possible at all?)

>Cheers

>Warren

        Good luck,
                Mario

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says...

Quote:> I'm going to be re-partitioning the primary disk on our Solaris 2.5
> machine.  I'll be backing up the entire system, using format to
> re-define the partition table, creating the new filesystems then
> restoring each filesystem into its appropriate slice.  When I restore
> the root slice, I assume that the vfstab file will not correspond to
> the new structure of my disk.

> How do I compensate for this?  Create a new vfstab file before doing
> the backup?  Edit the vfstab file once the system is restored? (Is
> this possible at all?)

> Cheers

> Warren

If you use the same slice numbers e.g. root = s0 etc... then I don't see
a problem.