From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 15 21:26:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6339716A4CE for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 21:26:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from dsl-mail.kamp.net (mail.kamp-dsl.de [195.62.99.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5AA9443D1F for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 21:26:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@pukruppa.de) Received: (qmail 19444 invoked by uid 505); 16 Mar 2004 05:26:44 -0000 Received: from root@pukruppa.de by dsl-mail by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.14 (spamassassin: 2.43. Clear:SA:0(0.0/5.0):. Processed in 0.286701 secs); 16 Mar 2004 05:26:44 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 Received: from unknown (HELO reverse-213-146-114-24.dialin.kamp-dsl.de) (213.146.114.24) by dsl-mail.kamp.net with SMTP; 16 Mar 2004 05:26:44 -0000 Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 06:31:22 +0100 (CET) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa X-X-Sender: root@pukruppa.net To: Terrac Skiens In-Reply-To: <20040316041146.GA2408@cloudfactory.org> Message-ID: <20040316061853.C884@pukruppa.net> References: <20040316041146.GA2408@cloudfactory.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: migrate system to new HD question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 05:26:45 -0000 On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Terrac Skiens wrote: > Hello All, > > I have been running a FreeBSD system for fun & semi-pro uses > for about 4 years. In all that time I only upgraded the Hard > Disk once. That upgrade came at the same time as an OS upgrade, > and at that time the server was used for much less. Now the > applications, configuration, and data are all very important to > me. > > So now it's time to upgrade again. and I want to migrate all > the data from one disk (20gb) to another (80gb). Does anyone > know of a way of imaging one drive onto the other? Idealy I > would like to increase some of the slices as well, but that may > not be possible. An alternative to imaging is a tool like pax (or tar), which can copy filesystems instead of slices and - that is the important part - preserve all user and group permissions, creation dates and links (your system won't do anything anymore without these). Thus you are independent of existing slice structures on your old HD. Please be careful and have a look and the manuals and google. Regards, Uli. +---------------------------+ | Peter Ulrich Kruppa | | Wuppertal | | Germany | +---------------------------+