Date: 28 Apr 2003 18:30:07 +0200 From: Guy Van Sanden <n.b@myrealbox.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Bootmanager & move FreeBSD between disks Message-ID: <1051547407.8005.0.camel@cronos.home.vsb>
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Hello I need some help to get something done in FreeBSD that I know how to do in Linux, but I miss some specifics in FreeBSD. I have two 40 GB disks in my home-server. One disk contains all filesystems (root and data), the other is free at the moment (it is intended to be a backup/mirror disk). Ath the moment, I have two problems on that disk: 1. After a BIOS upgrade my disk geometry (in the BIOS) changed, which gives me warnings in FreeBSD (with disklabel) 2. My root filesystem is too small (154 MB, 50% used). What I want to do is: 1. Boot the system from removable media (LiveCD?) 2. Copy all partitions from primary disk to backup disk (including the root filesystem) - I think using tar 3. Repartition the primary disk with the correct geometry and a larger root partition (300 MB should do it). 4. Copy the root and all data back to the primary disk (again with tar) 5. I don't have any idea how to do this, but I need to put the Bootmanager back on the primary disk, using the new disk layout. I would appreciate any suggestions/recommendations and any help on re-installing the bootmanager. My configuration: FreeBSD 5.0 Digital PC 3500 (Pentium II 333) 256 MB RAM 2x40GB IDE Harddisks. Thanks Guy
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