Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 13:43:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: kshuff@fast.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moving filesystems to another drive Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980520134119.28873M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Chameleon.980519210716.kshuff@kshuff.fast.net>
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On Tue, 19 May 1998 kshuff@fast.net wrote: > 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, Good way to start. > 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. Yeah, should be pretty easy. You will want to format the 1.2gig as a FreeBSD disk partitioned as you like, then just bulk-copy the partitions over one at a time. My disk formatting tutorial at http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat should have all the information you need. Considering that I did exactly the same thing when I wrote the tutorial, it should work for you :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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