Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 18:29:03 +0100 From: Ruben de Groot <fbsd-q@bzerk.org> To: Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim <ihsan_junaidi@yahoo.com.sg> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Adding new disk as the primary. Message-ID: <20021121172903.GA33315@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <200211212359.27693.ihsan_junaidi@yahoo.com.sg> References: <200211212359.27693.ihsan_junaidi@yahoo.com.sg>
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On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 11:59:27PM +0800, Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim typed: > Hello all, > > My disk is getting full and I'm thinking of getting bigger and faster disk to > accomodate my installation. I do not want to do reinstallation and prefer to > export previous settings in the present disk. There's too many of them that I > have to customize and I hate to redo it all. The present disk will serve as > /usr/ports partition and the rest will be placed on the upcoming disk. > > Is there a way to do this or do I have to do a reinstallation? You don't have to reinstall. 1) Boot the system with the new disk as a secundary disk, eg. ad2 2) use /stand/sysinstall to partition the new disk and put a bootmanager on it 3) newfs the partitions (this can also be done from sysinstall) 4) Use dump/restore to copy the content of your old disk to the newer; eg: # mount /dev/ad2s1a /mnt # cd /mnt # /sbin/dump -0af - / | /sbin/restore -rf - (repeat for other partitions) 5) remove old disk, replacing with new disk. > > Thank you in advance. > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free > http://sbc.yahoo.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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