Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 05:39:33 -0500 From: Jud <judmarc@fastmail.fm> To: anubis <anubis357@optusnet.com.au>, "Terrac Skiens" <freebsd@terrac.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: migrate system to new HD question Message-ID: <opr4yaj7iy0cf2rk@dialup-67.74.79.157.dial1.philadelphia1.level3.net> In-Reply-To: <200403162033.18444.anubis357@optusnet.com.au> References: <20040316041146.GA2408@cloudfactory.org> <200403162033.18444.anubis357@optusnet.com.au>
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On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 20:33:34 +1000, anubis <anubis357@optusnet.com.au> wrote: > 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. My apologies for coming in late to the discussion. Someone has probably already suggested the following link from the FreeBSD FAQ: <URL: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK>; It's simple, it's easy, it works, and it works as fast as or faster than any other method. Jud
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