From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 29 12:20:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA04496 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 12:20:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from bridge2.NSD.3Com.COM ([129.213.128.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA04441 for ; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 12:19:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from orodruin.NSD.3Com.COM by bridge2.NSD.3Com.COM with SMTP id AA12107 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4nsd for ); Thu, 29 Feb 1996 12:19:55 -0800 Received: by orodruin.NSD.3Com.COM id AA27351 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4-910730 for questions@freebsd.org); Thu, 29 Feb 1996 12:21:46 -0800 Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 12:21:46 -0800 Message-Id: <199602292021.AA27351@orodruin.NSD.3Com.COM> From: Scott Johnson To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: need to move data Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Folks, I'm upgrading my disk, and need to move the data from the old 100MB IDE drive to the new 1GB SCSI drive. Is it possible to mount the new disk into the old filesystem, transfer the files, and then remount the new disk as the new filesystem? (I'm planning on the new disk having the root partition) --srj It doesn't matter whether you win or lose -- until you lose. o_O --unknown =( ) = ----------------------------------------------------------- U Ack! Scott Johnson 3Com Corporation srj@3com.com 408-764-6248