Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:07:08 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Amarendra Godbole <amarendra.godbole@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving existing FreeBSD system to a new harddisk... Message-ID: <20070418100427.Q71922@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <294439d20704180628j8598a14v31f84d171ac47708@mail.gmail.com> References: <294439d20704180628j8598a14v31f84d171ac47708@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Amarendra Godbole wrote: > I have FreeBSD 6.2 installed on a Dell Latitude D400 laptop. The > harddisk is 40G, with FreeBSD occupying about 25G, and remaining to > Windows. I have received a replacement for this hard disk, which is a > bigger capacity one - 80G. I have to move the existing FreeBSD system > from the old to the new hard disk. I did find something here: > http://www.freebsddiary.org/driveswap.php. Still, I'd like to hear > someone's experience regarding the same. Thanks! The FAQ has the canonical way to do it: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK As that says, the easiest way is to do a minimal install on the new disk and then use restore. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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