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Date:      Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:41:44 +0000
From:      "James Seward" <jamesoff@gmail.com>
To:        "Norberto Meijome" <freebsd@meijome.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Is this safe? Copying a complete install from one HD to another
Message-ID:  <720051dc0803250241s6e8bd1dwb1dcf9d5492fce0f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080325135534.143d878c@meijome.net>
References:  <80f4f2b20803241559v4fbb6162k44fcbeb0fd17ad3e@mail.gmail.com> <20080325135534.143d878c@meijome.net>

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On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:55 AM, Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> wrote:
>  tar or dump | restore , etc... as long as the different file types (normal, links, sockets,etc) are transferred correctly. the same for user permissions.

I actually did this the other week for similar reasons - smartd was
starting to give warnings on the drive so I bought a new one and used
dump | restore for each partition to move things across. Worked fine
and I now have a happier, quieter and more spacious system :)



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