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Date:      Tue, 05 Dec 2006 13:00:05 -0500
From:      "B. Cook" <bcook@poklib.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Moving to a new disk..
Message-ID:  <4575B3A5.2050908@poklib.org>
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)
> 
> Thanks in advance.


Where could I tell him to get a live cd?

the installer CDs offer the option to drop into single user mode.. but 
it just goes right to the installer..

:P



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