From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 20 10:10:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA03772 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 May 1998 10:10:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ars.dorms.spbu.ru (root@ars.dorms.spbu.ru [195.19.252.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA02814 for ; Wed, 20 May 1998 10:06:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ars@ars.ml.org) Received: from ars.ml.org (ars@ars [195.19.252.194]) by ars.dorms.spbu.ru (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA19649; Wed, 20 May 1998 21:05:03 +0400 Message-ID: <35630D3B.60AB51D4@ars.ml.org> Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 17:05:00 +0000 From: Alex Osokin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.32 i586) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kshuff@fast.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moving filesystems to another drive References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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