Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 09:07:12 -0500 From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> To: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" <listsub@rambo.simx.org>, "a.s.gruner" <plankalkuel@encephalon.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: copy a harddrive and run that one Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20020526090712.011cea20@mail.sage-one.net> In-Reply-To: <3CF02E16.3040209@rambo.simx.org> References: <20020525171822.A856@encephalon.de>
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At 02:36 AM 5.26.2002 +0200, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote: >a.s.gruner wrote: > >> Hi. >> >> I have a running freebsd 4.6-RC on my IDE harddrive. >> Now i want to switch to an other harddrive, with the same size, but not >> IDE, its a SCSI harddrive. >> My question is very easy. How can i switch my running system, with all >> my installed ports, the updates (i installed 4.0 on the IDE harddrive >> and now i have 4.6RC running), and so on, to the SCSI harddisk ? >> Is there a way to copy the partitions ? >> Or, if not, what is the best way ? Just install a new FreeBSD System on >> my new SCSI device and copy the ports tree and /usr/src from the old IDE >> to the new SCSI (also the /home ), and try to build a new system with >> the sources i copied ? >> Thanks. >> >> asg >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > >As in so many other cases, the answer to this is in the FAQ: >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html > >-- >R > On this subject of moving from one HD to another, usually "dump" is recommended as opposed to other methods. But, I've never seen much on the amount of time it takes to move the partitions. For instance, does anyone know how long it takes to move 10GB as an example...from one HD to a second one???? .... our website: http://www.sage-one.net/ Best regards, Jack L. Stone Server Admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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