From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 8 06:57:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA11911 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 06:57:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from horton.iaces.com (horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA11903 for ; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 06:57:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from proot@horton.iaces.com) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA18400 for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 08:57:21 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199712081457.IAA18400@horton.iaces.com> Subject: migrating to new disk To: questions@freebsd.org (Questions FreeBSD) Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 08:57:20 -0600 (CST) X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services - ACES X-Phone: (612) 664-3385 X-Fax: (612) 664-4779 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 600 Stinson Blvd, Fl 1S X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55413 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I bought a new disk yesterday and need to move my system over to it. I bought Drive Copy to move Win95. The book made me think there was a chance that it would move FreeBSD too, but it didn't. But it did, Windows quite well. Anyway, what I figured on doing was: Boot old disk. create and newfs my partitions on my new disk use dd, tar, cpio, dump/restore to move stuff. Seem reasonable? I'm thinking dd of the raw partitions would be easiest, but then I wouldn't be able to increase partition sizes with it. Will I have to worry about the boot block? Paul. -- "We survived _Monsters A Go-Go_ we can survive anything!" - Joel Robinson