From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 11 1:33:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost01.reflexnet.net (mailhost01.reflexnet.net [64.6.192.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8919937B503 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 01:33:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflexcom.com ([216.196.73.168]) by mailhost01.reflexnet.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Sun, 11 Feb 2001 01:31:25 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflexcom.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f1B9XGi33535; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 01:33:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 01:33:15 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Bjarne Wichmann Petersen Cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: Moving setup from one HD to another. Message-ID: <20010211013315.J62368@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <200102110908.KAA00613@usr05.cybercity.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200102110908.KAA00613@usr05.cybercity.dk>; from mekanix@vip.cybercity.dk on Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 10:06:08AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 10:06:08AM +0100, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote: > > I need to move my setup from one HD to another. I could make a clean > install, but I've spend a lot of time to get this setup just right, so I'd > like to keep it. So, how do I go about that without choking on devices, > symlinks and whatever traps lurks around? Pipe dump(8) output on each old partition to restore(8) on the new one. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message