From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Aug 28 14:11:26 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE3A49C4A95 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 14:11:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kraduk@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wi0-x234.google.com (mail-wi0-x234.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c05::234]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5879E9F for ; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 14:11:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kraduk@gmail.com) Received: by wiyy7 with SMTP id y7so164106wiy.1 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 07:11:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=1YGY6IVP4U9fBPR056TPrMX5iOG0t6wducuw8Hj/6po=; b=YQCdi6PdO9qeAzYeYOWNRP6xBBu8DwKLWmukZm0Ar/jfRy5UH/3lm5m/7xY1Crfs20 l2CSlvz5C46z549T7ZAIWbWzR4z+xRvpdHK9oSxsWjLnnIrqfn18z6YD3zNDBEB/AeUQ 6uizeudT/UOrgqD6sHoeXz5mok8rJ9xsglE5wUgtfC8zwdFQlq4mXgYA4vwVlNC1vx8I xZ+eJap6iZ0IlbH6fcvhXY/hkuqzwiLcp1/2ZSBnLA3OfoGGkH+x2wosac4NtHQIIofR zJIdNHAkRr4AqjP2FK5Ptm/2kTf8zx6PpWOxV9y8IxQ6k1dr+mN3Hut3kwGxjcNninhF /L+g== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.180.215.101 with SMTP id oh5mr4837242wic.6.1440771083959; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 07:11:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.28.125.212 with HTTP; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 07:11:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <55E047DC.40800@qeng-ho.org> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 15:11:23 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Replacing Drive with SSD From: krad To: Damien Fleuriot Cc: Doug Hardie , FreeBSD - Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 14:11:26 -0000 I prefer rsync as it allows me to change file systems as well, I usually use rsync -aPHx --numeric-ids On 28 August 2015 at 13:49, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > > On 28/08/2015 07:59, Doug Hardie wrote: > > > >> I am having to replace a drive with a SSD. Normally if I were > >> > > > replacing it with another drive, I would hook up the new drive > > > to the computer and just use dd to copy everything (system would > > > be quiescent). Can I do the same with a SSD or does it need to > > > be setup differently? This is a boot drive (i.e., the only drive > > > in the system). The system is currently working fine, but the > > > drive temp is starting to go up so I want to replace it before > > > anything bad happens. > > > > > Any reason you're not using dump/restore ? > Now that would skip empty blocks :) > That would allow you to expand your partitions, in the process. > > Warren Block has a very good guide over there : > http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/backup.html > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >