Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 17:05:00 +0000 From: Alex Osokin <ars@ars.ml.org> To: kshuff@fast.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moving filesystems to another drive Message-ID: <35630D3B.60AB51D4@ars.ml.org> References: <Chameleon.980519210716.kshuff@kshuff.fast.net>
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I'm was asking here some time ago about the same. Finally I got such solution: Do disklabel and newfs on your new drive (you may type /stand/sysinstall as root then follow your intuition :)) Then mount your / on new drive to /mnt for example and do tar cf - /etc | tar xvpf - -C /mnt tar cf - /.... | tar xvpf - -C /mnt for every dir in your old / except /mnt :) kshuff@fast.net wrote: > Hello list, > > I am pretty new to FreeBSD and have installed 2.1.6 onto an old 486 that was collecting dust in the basement. I am using this maching as a learning platform, my problem is that the machine only had a 300 meg hard drive at the time of installation. I have since acquired a 1.2 Gb drive and was wondering if it was possible to transfer the contents of the 300 meg drive over to the 1.2 gig drive. I dont want to lose any of the data, or keep the 300 meg drive in the system, so re-installing to the 1.2 Gb drive is not an option. Any help appreciated, thanks. > > -Keith S. Huff > > kshuff@fast.net > > > > ** Any and all unsolicited email sent to this account will be charged a $50.00 fee and subject to collection. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Regards, Alex Osokin mailto:ars@ars.ml.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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