From owner-freebsd-net Wed Apr 21 17:20:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (unknown [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7F0B158F5 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 17:20:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA01439; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 18:17:35 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <371E6A9D.50CF2A89@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 18:17:33 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rosteen@elpn.com Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: more space please References: <371E2F21.A18B3DA9@elpn.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org rosteen wrote: > > Hello, > How would one with Freebsd OS change over to a bigger drive on a > particular server? > It's more like what is the preferred/easiest method so that all configs > can be transferred with little to no effort. If you're running 3.1 or above, you could stick the new drive in your system, slice it up as needed, and add the new space to the existing filesystems with Vinum volume manager. Otherwise, my suggestion would be to put the new drive in the system, run sysinstall on it, they copy the files from the existing disk to the new one before removing the original disk. I usually just wait until the next upgrade to switch drives and do a fresh install on the new drive, but I'm a masochist. I wonder what it would take to get PowerQuest to add BSD ufs to Partition Magic? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message