From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 20 13:46:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA21868 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 May 1998 13:46:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA21532 for ; Wed, 20 May 1998 13:44:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA28982; Wed, 20 May 1998 13:43:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 13:43:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: kshuff@fast.net cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moving filesystems to another drive In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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