From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 3 4:16:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0DA737B417 for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 04:16:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=tanya.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16XLZC-0005W0-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 03 Feb 2002 12:16:18 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (tanya.raggedclown.intra, from userid 500) id 075D643244; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 13:16:16 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 13:16:16 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving a system from IDE --> SCSI Message-ID: <20020203121616.GA2938@raggedclown.net> References: <15451.22100.63672.669042@guru.mired.org> <20020202093406.GA1111@raggedclown.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020202093406.GA1111@raggedclown.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i 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 On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 10:34:06AM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 09:00:36PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Cliff Sarginson types: > > > Hello, > > > (One for you Edwin ?) > > > My FreeBSD system is nicely ensconced on an IDE drive. > > > I have enough space now to move it to a SCSI drive on > > > the same machine. > > > The SCSI drive has one small linux /boot partition, where > > > I use Lilo to set up booting, I do not want to change this. > > > > > > I don't see any problem with just putting some BSD partitioning > > > on the SCSI drive and moving stuff over, except I am sitting here > > > thinking about the root slice. > > > What do you think of this .. as step 1. > > > I create a BSD partition on the SCSI disk and copy over my > > > IDE root partition. Adjust the name of the root partition to > > > reflect the SCSI device, remake Lilo with an entry for the BSD > > > system on the new partition and try and boot Generic. > > > I leave the current IDE root in place of course, so I will not be > > > left stranded. > > > Is there a flaw in this plan ? > > > If it works I can then transfer over the rest of the BSD system > > > at leisure. > > > Any comments ? > > > > Not only is it a reasonable plan, I've done just that to move a system > > to a new disk. > > > Plan succeeded, except using tar to copy /dev does funny things to the > permissions..apart from that... > I must own up here, someone very kindly pointed out to me that tar is not the right tool to use for what I did, it has documented problems with /dev... So this is a RTFM message to myself.. :) -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message