From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 28 11:46: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-94-248-46.mmcable.com [24.94.248.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E899237B40C for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 11:45:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 53854 invoked by uid 100); 28 Sep 2001 18:45:57 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15284.50533.304757.303606@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 13:45:57 -0500 To: Justin Stanford Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading HDD space on existing installation.. ideas? In-Reply-To: <106566511@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 Justin Stanford types: > and start over -- my machine has years of configuration, software > installation, etc, behind it, so I need to find some way to move to a new, > bigger HDD, while still exactly preserving my system.. not just /usr, > everything, like /etc, /var/, and so on. > > Various suggestions have been made, but I'm not sure what the best route > is to follow.. any suggestions, anyone? Read the FAQ . FWIW, you've just discovered why I recommend two partitions for workstations instead of one: / and /home. There's no real reason to have / and /usr in different partitions, but having all of your work in /home makes it a *lot* easier to do a reinstall. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message