From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 25 09:41:47 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5329B106566B for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:41:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamesoff@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.181]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 196218FC38 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:41:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamesoff@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k17so3826554waf.3 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:41:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=28tE/cw2nmXTY2jnTVNd6YyhWOnQMmJZbAgRrHnPBKM=; b=eNmDHsozM6YRGDVeiaCHBTaLUWxDvRp/7gczDmruX6U0fKxrLjFbYLBaVe3o/T1PUEH/8yemREwHEzDTpXnbEyew+NCYk+IvQJIbAPL+5VhhODfJQdMwsJbtarzkQoXSjA+g8mhQ/yEJn8T0E2ZowXGeck9rUYc1ezjJd9ZYr78= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=gZ8MUCI2UkImu83Q3EsNx6P8uHochZgCp6z70jRWfWOq/UDOzL/Blc4yA2lOeB2vnQXeg4xzfc0bpFPN3ZQlyOuNqBljh14lMkY9lf4qGW9ArjjfisIc2sD5OJXiq9IvtUPlYnaPQBF5Yq3xXybC0WUA9xdGOc3hVQcWDwLz6nk= Received: by 10.114.193.1 with SMTP id q1mr13530308waf.75.1206438106242; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:41:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.115.91.7 with HTTP; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:41:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <720051dc0803250241s6e8bd1dwb1dcf9d5492fce0f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:41:44 +0000 From: "James Seward" To: "Norberto Meijome" In-Reply-To: <20080325135534.143d878c@meijome.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <80f4f2b20803241559v4fbb6162k44fcbeb0fd17ad3e@mail.gmail.com> <20080325135534.143d878c@meijome.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is this safe? Copying a complete install from one HD to another X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:41:47 -0000 On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:55 AM, Norberto Meijome 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 :)