Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 17:12:15 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <robert@fledge.watson.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Moving boot from wd0 to wd3 for disk swap -- replicate tree? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960114170537.680A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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My current wd0 (a 1.2 gig Western Digital) is failing, and as such I am shipping it back to the vendor (Gateway 2000) -- I have purchased a 1.6 gig drive to replace it in the meantime, and it is currently mounted on wd3.. I have a 540 meg Maxtor as wd1. My problem is this: I want to move wd3 to be wd0, and to boot from it from now on (when the existing 1.2 gig drive returns, it'll get stuck in as wd3 and used for data) -- this means creating a bootable freebsd partition/tree that duplicates my existing 1.2 gig config. My 1.2 gig contained: 512 meg Win 95 partition (hardly ever used, mounted read only most of the time) 48 meg root partition (kernels, etc; SymLinks to /var, /tmp on /usr part) 325 meg /usr partition (contains aftermentioned tmp and var trees) 96 meg swap partition My 1.6 gig is now configured to contain: 64 meg root partition (containing tmp, var) 400 meg /usr partition 900 meg /usr/homea partition 196 meg swap My 540 has always contained (and will continue to contain) the /usr/home partition. /usr/local may end up symlinked on /usr/homea I need to copy over the existing root partition (and usr partition) to the new locations -- cp -R screws up hard links, is there any better way to do it? I was going to just install the binary distribution on the new hard disk (and did so, only I found that I had installed a lot of stuff since I did the original installation.) The system is a 2.1.0 dist upgraded from 2.0.5, and with varies pieces such as web servers, X servers, etc. Will tar do what I need -- such as preserve the hard links in /sbin and /stand? Thanks for any help rendered.. Robert Watson
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