From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 27 5:19:24 2002 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 1582737B400 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 05:19:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts16.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FC8743E91 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 05:19:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu) Received: from scaryg.shacknet.nu ([64.231.133.168]) by tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.19 201-253-122-122-119-20020516) with ESMTP id <20020827121931.QJTN14780.tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net@scaryg.shacknet.nu>; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 08:19:31 -0400 Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=scaryg.shacknet.nu) by scaryg.shacknet.nu with smtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 17jfGR-0001Sg-00; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 08:16:07 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 08:16:06 -0400 From: ScaryG To: Brossin Pierrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HD copy (2,5Gb => 4Gb) Message-Id: <20020827081606.434b93ee.freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu> In-Reply-To: <1030443611.3d6b525b28ce0@www.swissgeeks.com> References: <1030443611.3d6b525b28ce0@www.swissgeeks.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 12:20:11 +0200 Brossin Pierrick wrote: > The thing is I'd like to copy my current configuration files, kernel and > stuff to the new HD without to have to reinstall everything. I went from a 4 GB drive to a 40 GB drive and I didn't have to reinstall anything. I used the information at FreeBSD Cheat Sheets: http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd Under "Advanced Topics" you'll find a link "Moving to a Larger Hard Drive". The concept worked perfectly. I am running FreeBSD 4.4. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Scary Gerry -- Senior Systems Manager freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu -For web-hosting, Perl, PHP & MySql programming see http://www.interpool.ca -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message