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From: "Rino Mardo" <rmardo@crosswinds.net>
To: "Kathy Quinlan" <katinka@magestower.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: upgrading to larger HDD
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 19:56:32 +0400
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I saw that article too and I think it should work for you with a bit
of adjustment.  Here's what you can do based on my experience
upgrading SCO Unixes (correct where applicable):

1.  install big hd as secondary
2.  format big hd as UFS to prepare it to receive fbsd
3.  now, mount big hd to /mnt in your small hd
4.  do a (cd /; tar cf - / | cd /mnt; tar xvf -)  note: i don't have
access to a *nix box right now so you might want to check how to
preserve the files
5.  before rebooting, you might want to edit your /etc/fstab in the
big hd to reflect the new setup
6.  shutdown, remove small hd, setup big hd as primary and boot! :-)

I may miss some steps here so someone correct me.


P.S. a *nix guy with experience in *nix administration/ids/security
just got laid off (me).  looking for work. sorry for shameless plug.

- - ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kathy Quinlan" <katinka@magestower.com>
To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 7:18 PM
Subject: upgrading to larger HDD


> Hi all :o)
> 
> I am finally moving my server from 700Mb to 4.6Gb and need some
> advice :  
> 
> I am not interested in keeping the old drive in the system, and
> just want to run the new one :o)
> 
> What is the best way to do this ???
> 
> I thought about a clean install, but as all the config is nearly
> the way I want it, was wondering how do I "copy" the old drive to
> the new.
> 
> I found a cheat sheet on mostgraveconcern, but this was written for
> 3.4 and as I am running 4.1.1R (will cvsup now I have the space to
> 4.3R :o)) I am not sure the idea will still work ???
> 
> Thanks in advance for replies.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Kat.
> 
> 
> 
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