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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:07:08 -0600 (MDT)
From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Amarendra Godbole <amarendra.godbole@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Moving existing FreeBSD system to a new harddisk...
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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