Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 15:44:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "James A. Mutter" <jmutter@insomnia.norden1.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New harddrive... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980518154419.9951H-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980518064125.287A-100000@insomnia.norden1.com>
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On Mon, 18 May 1998, James A. Mutter wrote: > > I just got a new hd and I want to move *everything* from the old to the > new. I'm just not sure how to go about it. > > I was thinking I could use dd to move the bootsector, but I'm afraid that > the drive geometry and other unwanted data will go with it. Is this > correct? Yup. > Now, assuming that dd works for the bs, whats the best way to move > everything else? I think I could do it with tar, but I'm not sure if that > will preserve everything, mostly the different slices and such. See http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat/ Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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