From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 14 5:24:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from c007.snv.cp.net (h014.c007.snv.cp.net [209.228.33.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BAFD637B400 for ; Tue, 14 May 2002 05:24:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (cpmta 5277 invoked from network); 14 May 2002 05:24:37 -0700 Received: from 64.194.5.249 (HELO jaymax.com) by smtp.directvinternet.com (209.228.33.242) with SMTP; 14 May 2002 05:24:37 -0700 X-Sent: 14 May 2002 12:24:37 GMT Message-ID: <3CE10267.ACDFA70@jaymax.com> Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 05:26:16 -0700 From: Joseph Maxwell X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: questions-digest V5 #1289 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, Running FreeBSD 4.2 One of my disks, the system disk, an EIDE, started developing bad blocks w/ hardware I/O errors - "Replacement time" MAXTOR drive replacement Would like to copy and maintain my original config., data etc. on the new sys. disk, how should I go about doing this, from scratch - including the partitioning of the new disk. Thought 'dd' might be appropriate but would it create partitions etc? Thanks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message