Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 17:48:33 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Chris Rich <freebsdnews@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Transferring system to a new hard drive Message-ID: <20041105154833.GA1116@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> In-Reply-To: <8292450b0411050713536e2e0e@mail.gmail.com> References: <8292450b0411050713536e2e0e@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2004-11-05 09:13, CHris Rich <freebsdnews@gmail.com> wrote: > My original install of FreeBSD is on a 30 gig hard drive, I want to > move it to an 80 gig I now have, but i don't want to have to reinstall > everything since I've spent hours waiting for some ports to install. > > So after googling and searching I found a few ideas of how to migrate > to a new hard drive but none which I really trust, (ghosting, > acronis(sp?)) You can do it using standard tools, provided with the base system. I recently moved all my data to a new 200 GB IDE disk, and kept a set of step-by-step notes while doing this. They are available online at my weblog, if that's any help while you plan your own migration to a larger hard disk: http://keramida.serverhive.com/weblog/archives/daemonizing-a-new-disk > If I do move it over will I have ot make new slices to take advantage > of the bigger hard drive? If this is the case will I lose what data is > already in the slice or can it adjust without any hitches or loss of > data? I made new slices to the larger disk, installed a clean copy of FreeBSD using 'make installworld' and then moved all my user data to the new /home partition. You don't *have* to move everything. But it's a nice chance to clean up things if you have been upgrading from the sources during the past X years, like I had been doing. - Giorgos
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