From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 16 02:30:00 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 D3D4516A4CE for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2004 02:30:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail011.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail011.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6C6B43D55 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2004 02:29:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anubis357@optusnet.com.au) Received: from rdlax11-a030.dialup.optusnet.com.au (rdlax11-a030.dialup.optusnet.com.au [198.142.39.30])i2GATa102816; Tue, 16 Mar 2004 21:29:40 +1100 From: anubis To: Terrac Skiens , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 20:33:34 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <20040316041146.GA2408@cloudfactory.org> In-Reply-To: <20040316041146.GA2408@cloudfactory.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200403162033.18444.anubis357@optusnet.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: migrate system to new HD question 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, 16 Mar 2004 10:30:00 -0000 On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 2:11 pm, Terrac Skiens wrote: > Hello All, > > I have been running a FreeBSD system for fun & semi-pro uses for > about 4 years. In all that time I only upgraded the Hard Disk once. > That upgrade came at the same time as an OS upgrade, and at that > time the server was used for much less. Now the applications, > configuration, and data are all very important to me. > > So now it's time to upgrade again. and I want to migrate all the > data from one disk (20gb) to another (80gb). Does anyone know of a > way of imaging one drive onto the other? Idealy I would like to > increase some of the slices as well, but that may not be possible. > > If anyone knows of a way, please let me know. There is the ever popular dump and restore method also. This allows you to modify the slice and partition sizes. Do something like this. drop in new disk format up with the sysinstall tools mount the new partitions somewhere restore the data to them edit files like fstab to change the disk names in there or just swap the drives around in the box so the new one is logically where the old one was. reboot look at man dump and man restore If you really want to do it this way I can supply a better dummy sheet.