Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 13:50:43 -0400 From: David Banning <david@www3.pacific-pages.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: install new drive problem Message-ID: <20000920135043.A439@www3.pacific-pages.com>
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I want to replace my 3.4 gig drive with a new 20 gig drive I just bought. While I'm actually running 4.0 Stable - I used my FreeBSD 2.2.8 old cdrom set to install the file systems and set as bootable. Then I booted from my 3.4 gig drive, mounted my 20 gig drive and commenced copying all files over with "cp -R" to the individual file systems. There are two problems. One is - the file systems on the new drive fill up too quickly, and problem 2: the new 20 gig drive won't boot. Here is what df shows; Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd1s1a 87055 38184 41907 48% / /dev/wd1s1f 2971838 2044310 689781 75% /usr /dev/wd1s1e 58031 9332 44057 17% /var procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc /dev/wd0s1a 98479 40240 50361 44% /newroot /dev/wd0s1f 19048854 7380208 10144738 42% /newusr /dev/wd0s1e 98479 9314 81287 10% /newvar you can see that although the new file systems contain the exact same stuff, percentage-wise they take up too much space on the drive. (eg. 75% of say 3.2 gigs (/usr) should not be 42% of say 18.5 gigs (/newusr), given that it's the same content) I realize I'm going about this in a rather self-made way but I couldn't find any example of this in my FreeBSD book (bought with 2.2.8) and I didn't want to bother you folks without first putting in some effort myself. Any pointers would be appreciated To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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