From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 1 8:20:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from iaces.com (horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14BC6150A6 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 08:20:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from proot@iaces.com) Received: (from proot@localhost) by iaces.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA00829; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 10:19:25 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199904011619.KAA00829@iaces.com> Subject: Re: backup In-Reply-To: <00a301be7c57$157a7b20$96baa7d1@zigzag.london.skyscape.net> from Mark Jones at "Apr 1, 99 10:48:23 am" To: mjones@mco.net (Mark Jones) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 10:19:25 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organization: USWEST !nterprise Networking - ACES X-Phone: (612) 664-3385 X-Fax: (612) 664-4779 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 600 Stinson Blvd, Fl 1S X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55413 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In a previous message, Mark Jones said: > I have multiple freebsd systems here. I would like to put a new hard drive > into the system copy all files on to the new harddrive remove it and be able > to put it into a new system and have it boot up identical to the original > system. I have tried this and it has a problem on boot after the fsck when > it trys to mount / as rw. It says that device is not as currently mounted. > > What should I do to accomplish this task? I do this all the time. Did you use dump/restore to accomplish this? Basically the steps are: disklabel newfs fsck mount /dev/ /mnt cd /mnt dump 0f / |restore -rf - rm /mnt/restoresymtable repeat for other partitions. move disk to new machine, changing SCSI ID or IDE master/slave. -- MicroEmacs vs GNU Emacs: M-X enter-nuclear-reactor-control-mode isn't there, but I never used it much anyway. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message