From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 10 22:33:32 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 CBA4C37B401 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 22:33:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clmboh1-smtp5.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp5.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.116]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0311B43EA3 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 22:33:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jarnold@knightridder.com) Received: from jimarnold.org (a11d015.neo.rr.com [204.210.211.15]) by clmboh1-smtp5.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g9B5XT013717; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 01:33:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (mac [192.168.0.4]) by jimarnold.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2E3436A2; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 01:33:32 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: jim@192.168.0.2 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 01:33:18 -0400 To: "Maildrop" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Jim Arnold Subject: Re: Replacing/Mirror root drive? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" 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 At 11:39 PM -0500 10/10/02, Maildrop wrote: >I currently have a 4.3 gig drive as my root/var and swap partitions. This >drive is going bad fast and need to replace it. > >I have a clean, working 10 gig drive that has been tested and verified >working correctly. > >The question is, how do I "mirror" the 4.3 gig drive over to the 10 gig >drive? Is there anything like Norton's Ghost for FreeBSD? > >/dev/ad0s2b none swap sw 0 0 >/dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 >/dev/ad0s3e /var ufs rw 2 2 See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK, which would apply to you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message