From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 9 0:48:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2E8537B401 for ; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 00:48:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from fat_man.ascendency.net (12-250-130-72.client.attbi.com [12.250.130.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EABBC43E88 for ; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 00:48:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@ascendency.net) Received: from mike (adsl-64-109-250-131.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net [64.109.250.131]) by fat_man.ascendency.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gA98lDW16461 for ; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 02:47:14 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from mike@ascendency.net) Reply-To: From: "Mike Loiterman" To: Subject: Adding additional HD space Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 02:44:37 -0600 Message-ID: <000001c287cc$42351b50$0302a8c0@mike> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4024 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 My current 2GB HD is reaching maximum capacity, is fairly old and probably about to die. What is the best way to go about replacing the drive? Few points to keep in mind: 1. The system cannot deal with HD drives over, I believe, 8 gigs. 2. I suppose it goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway: its critical to maintain the existing data! The machine is my web, mail, ssh, vpn, and ftp server. Needles to say I do a full backup every night. Ideally I'd like to buy new drive and do a "ghost" of the old drive onto the new drive. If you're not familiar with the term "ghost" -- in the Windows world there is a piece of software the allows you to do a bit for bit copy of one drive to another and accordingly its called Norton Ghost. Would doing a full restore from my backup be equivalent to this? If so, how do I preserve the partition structure and how do I actually perform the task? Do I boot using the old HD, do the restore onto the new drive, shutdown, unhook the old drive and reboot? How do I know the data is unaltered and is an exact copy? My last question -- How can I get the system to recognize larger hard drives? I have been successful getting older systems to recognize large drives using utilities such as MaxBlaster from Maxtor, but that was using Windows. Are there similar utilities for FreeBSD? I tried adding a 10 gig drive the system in question but the system refused to boot with that drive in any place on the IDE chain. I was also unsuccessful in using the MaxBlaster to enable the drive for use on the system. Maybe I was doing something wrong? Thanks in advance. ........................................... Randomly Generated Quote: 'A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.' -- Barry Goldwater Mike Loiterman PGP Key 0xD1B9D18E http://www.ascendency.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 7.0.4 Comment: Message digitally signed by Mike Loiterman iQA/AwUBPczK9WjZbUnRudGOEQI5cwCgtUceNvjBESBz1WE2Oh0U1oKy+TEAnj5q P00iJZZ6WyVf1EvckZlcWr8v =gRXu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message