From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 25 4:20:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub.unibe.ch (mailhub.unibe.ch [130.92.254.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F33137B6C5 for ; Thu, 25 May 2000 04:20:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roth@iamexwi.unibe.ch) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by mailhub.unibe.ch (PMDF V5.2-32 #42480) id <0FV4003014OI34@mailhub.unibe.ch> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 25 May 2000 13:17:07 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from iamexwi.unibe.ch (haegar.unibe.ch [130.92.71.10]) by mailhub.unibe.ch (PMDF V5.2-32 #42480) with ESMTP id <0FV40028U4OIQ7@mailhub.unibe.ch>; Thu, 25 May 2000 13:17:06 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from klimt.unibe.ch (klimt [130.92.62.21]) by iamexwi.unibe.ch (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA14855; Thu, 25 May 2000 13:20:00 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (roth@localhost) by klimt.unibe.ch (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA17825; Thu, 25 May 2000 13:19:58 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 13:19:57 +0200 (MET DST) From: Tobias Roth Subject: Re: System Transfer In-reply-to: <392D0B9B.14F7B7D1@wincom.net> X-Sender: roth@klimt To: Chris Demers Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Authentication-warning: klimt.unibe.ch: roth owned process doing -bs Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > recently received a 4GB drive that I would like to transfer the whole > system over to as my main boot drive combined from the two smaller > drives and remove the two smaller drives. man mount, man cp, man fstab, man reboot ;) Just format and partition the new disk the way you want it, copy the whole stuff over, check your symlinks, make sure there is a /proc, tweak /etc/fstab and you're set. cheers, Tobe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message