From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 21 07:14:00 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 F33BC16A4CE for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 07:13:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail3.sa.chariot.net.au (mail3.sa.chariot.net.au [203.87.94.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D37143D1D for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 07:13:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from imoore@picknowl.com.au) Received: from jupiter.picknowl.com.au (jupiter.picknowl.com.au [203.87.94.38]) by mail3.sa.chariot.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id EECE6A3E37 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 16:43:56 +0930 (CST) Received: from popadl-04-006.picknowl.com.au (popadl-04-006.picknowl.com.au [210.48.131.6]) by jupiter.picknowl.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CEDD9684B for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 16:43:56 +0930 (CST) From: Ian Moore To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 16:44:56 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <3.0.6.32.20040921003109.007d6100@mail.uk2.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20040921003109.007d6100@mail.uk2.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200409211645.04590.imoore@picknowl.com.au> Subject: Re: SCSI Shock Advice ! 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, 21 Sep 2004 07:14:00 -0000 =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:01, Graham Bentley wrote: > Thanks for replies, however I need advise > on cloning the IDE to the SCSI disc. > > G4U did not finish correctly and once > I had made changes to fstab and booted > the fs I got some pretty severe errors. > > /usr was inaccessible and I ended up > using Freesbie to re-edit fstab to get > a booting system. > > I think the problem is that the SCSI > disc is 38GB (only 1.7GB used) and > the IDE is 40GB. > > What is the best / safest way to do > a dis clone in this case? > > Thanks again > > Graham > > > Custom PC North West > Open Source Solutions > http://www.cpcnw.co.uk > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Have a look at the FAQ:=20 file:/usr/share/doc/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK Basically, you just dump each partition, piping dump's output to restore. T= his=20 will copy everything across, including device files etc. Then edit /etc/fstab to point the partitions to /dev/da??? instead=20 of /dev/ad??? for each partition. Cheers, =2D --=20 Ian GPG Key: http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/imoore/imoore.asc =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBT9T3fITqkXhImmIRAkiBAJ9H/bImIliUsytEtM5B1olrcghVLgCeM/rt Gwz5CmIt3I/rD9zHhO6c4ek=3D =3DL19a =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE-----