Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 10:01:18 -0600 From: Eric <heli@mikestammer.com> To: "B. Cook" <bcook@poklib.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving to a new disk.. Message-ID: <457597CE.2040408@mikestammer.com> In-Reply-To: <457594C2.90803@poklib.org> References: <457594C2.90803@poklib.org>
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B. Cook wrote: > Hello all, > > I've got a dying drive on my hands.. and I know I found a doc/guide on > the handbook before regarding this.. > > something like.. > > # tar cf - --one-file-system -C /var . | tar xpvf - -C /mnt/var > > where the new drive is fsck'd and mounted at /mnt .. > > or something else.. > > where is that? > > or how would I do that? > > I just want to take this 20G drive and copy it to a 30G drive.. > > what would be the best way? > > (and I need to talk to someone over the phone about this.. it's his > box and he has no inet) > > this is what i used when i did it a month ago http://lantech.geekvenue.net/chucktips/jason/chuck/1004897633/index_html it will be slightly different depending on your version, but dump/restore is better than tar Eric
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