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--- how_to_clone_tru64_and_digital_unix [2019/06/25 06:40] – [It Boots but It's Horked Up] sgriggs
+++ how_to_clone_tru64_and_digital_unix [2021/06/01 19:34] – [Creating File Systems] sgriggs
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 In general, if you are cloning a UFS based system, then be very careful that your disklabel is going to give you enough space for the **/** and **/usr** file systems. If you are using AdvFS make sure that the total slices you set aside can be used to add up to the sizes you need (ie.. remember that AdvFS can do concatination, mirroring, and striping between disk/block devices). This is an effort you need to make before you start copying over files, because by then it could be too late to correct a size mismatch and you'll simply find out because the destination file system or file set will fill up before your copy/sync operation completes.
+==== Creating File Systems ====
+Once you have your disk label setup on the clone, what you have is a essentially a partition table with no file systems. It's now up to us to actually create file systems inside of those extents we just defined. Obviously, this is a different process depending on if you use UFS or AdvFS. For UFS users the process is much more simple. You simply need to run the **newfs** command on each UFS partition. It's no more complicated than that. Here is an example, in this case we have three filesystems, one on dsk0a, and then two more: dsk0g, and dsk0h. This is a common configuration I find on many Tru64 5.1 systems.
+<code>
+# newfs /dev/rdisk/dsk0a
+# newfs /dev/rdisk/dsk0g
+# newfs /dev/rdisk/dsk0h
+</code>
+That puts down all the superblocks and metadata information the filesystem uses internally to operate. It doesn't mean you've mounted those filesystems anywhere for use, yet. It also doesn't mean you have proper entries in the clone's /etc/fstab reflecting this configuration. So, keep in mind that we still have to do that and I'll show you how later on in this guide.
 ==== File Copy Steps ====