Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 10:19:59 -0800 From: Clint Olsen <clint@0lsen.net> To: Remo Lacho <Remo.Lacho@verizon.net> Cc: Matt Smith <ratman6@charter.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Data transfer from one HD to another Message-ID: <20060326181959.GF39296@0lsen.net> In-Reply-To: <20060326095509.9e3b565e.Remo.Lacho@verizon.net> References: <20060326120043.935BA16A532@hub.freebsd.org> <000201c650d9$06b2e330$0201a8c0@bedroom> <20060326095509.9e3b565e.Remo.Lacho@verizon.net>
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On Mar 26, Remo Lacho wrote: > dump and restore are your friends. > > Try something like this for each new slice (partition): > > Create your new slice on the new disk. > > newfs the new slice - newfs -U /dev/[new_slice] > > mount the new slices - mount /dev/[new_slice] /mnt > > dump and restore from the old slice to the new slice - > dump -L -0 -f- /[old_slice] | (cd /mnt; restore -r -v -f-) If you want to ensure that the system is quiescent before doing the copy, you should actually boot from an alternative media and do the copy using those utilities. I actually needed to do this for Windows XP and I was too cheap to pay for any of the commercial software, so I used g4u: http://www.feyrer.de/g4u It's based on NetBSD and worked great for my Windows PC. I was cloning from a smaller to larger HD, so I had to use another utility to extend the partitions without formatting. Good luck, -Clint
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