From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 7 18:44:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo.feral.com [192.67.166.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57ADA37B406 for ; Sat, 7 Jul 2001 18:44:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo (mjacob@beppo [192.67.166.79]) by beppo.feral.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f681iGS59304; Sat, 7 Jul 2001 18:44:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 18:44:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob X-Sender: mjacob@beppo Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Jeff Mohler Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: best way to migrate to a new disk In-Reply-To: <20010708013959.16876.qmail@web10301.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I always newfs a new disk, mount it async on /altroot, and use cd / mkdir -p /altroot/ tar cfl - . | (cd /altroot/ && tar xpf -) I make sure I do a MAKDEV all in /altroot/dev and I make sure I do a disklabel -B on the new disk. It's pretty simple. On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Jeff Mohler wrote: > I need to upgrade to a new HD now that the current one > has shows some reliability issues..and Im polling for > what is the best method to do so. > > Do not have a tape drive..but if thats the only > solution..one could be gained, but Im sure there might > be an easier way. > > Comments? > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message