From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 10 8:14:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bastion3.mail.sprint.com (bastion3.mail.sprint.com [208.4.28.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE13F37B662 for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 08:14:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt.a.jonkman@openmail.mail.sprint.com) Received: from sii01.mail.sprint.com by bastion3.mail.sprint.com with ESMTP for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 10:14:41 -0500 Received: from [144.223.128.84] by sii01.mail.sprint.com with ESMTP; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 10:14:22 -0500 Received: from kcopmp01.corp.sprint.com (kcopmp01m [10.74.2.72]) by kcopmh01.corp.sprint.com (8.8.6 (PHNE_17190)/8.8.6) with ESMTP id KAA12435; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 10:14:20 -0500 (CDT) From: matt a jonkman Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by kcopmp01.corp.sprint.com (8.8.6 (PHNE_17190)/8.8.6) with ESMTP id KAA26957; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 10:14:20 -0500 (CDT) X-OpenMail-Hops: 1 Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 10:14:19 -0500 Message-Id: Subject: RE: Duplicating Hard Drives To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, maxiter@inetu.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="openmail-part-268fbabe-00000001" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --openmail-part-268fbabe-00000001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline I'd use Norton's Ghost or such and just copy the entire disk. More downtime though. Matt -----Original Message----- From: maxiter [mailto:maxiter@inetu.net] Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 10:05 AM To: freebsd-questions Cc: maxiter Subject: FW: Duplicating Hard Drives A question about duplicating content from one hard drive to the next... Let's say that we have a hard drive which looks like it's getting ready to fail. Being proactive, we'd like to replace the hard drive before it actually becomes unusable. :) In the past, I've added extra hard drives to FreeBSD 2.2.8, 3.2, and 3.4 systems without any trouble. I've moved the content from one partition to another (IE., from /usr on drive 0 to the new /usr partition on drive 1). That much isn't a problem. The heart of my question is this: After I put in the second hard drive and move all the content over, how do I get the necessary boot sector programs in place where they should be? As the first (failing) hard drive needs to come out, the second must boot as the first did. Suggestions? Thanks! --------------------------------------------------- Mark Rekai - INetU, Inc.(tm) - http://www.INetU.net Electronic commerce - Web development - Web hosting Mark@INetU.net - Phone: (610) 266-7441 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message --openmail-part-268fbabe-00000001-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message