From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 30 21:53:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BB53237B424 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 21:53:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 60795 invoked by uid 100); 1 May 2001 04:53:09 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15086.16693.938498.673429@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 23:53:09 -0500 To: "Kathy Quinlan" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading to larger HDD In-Reply-To: <48494374@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kathy Quinlan types: > Hi all :o) > > I am finally moving my server from 700Mb to 4.6Gb and need some advice : > > I am not interested in keeping the old drive in the system, and just want to > run the new one :o) > > What is the best way to do this ??? > > I thought about a clean install, but as all the config is nearly the way I > want it, was wondering how do I "copy" the old drive to the new. > > I found a cheat sheet on mostgraveconcern, but this was written for 3.4 and > as I am running 4.1.1R (will cvsup now I have the space to 4.3R :o)) I am > not sure the idea will still work ??? Use the FAQ, Kat. This covers a lot of the issues discussed here. It is targeted at copying your current installation, not copying configuration information to a new install. The best way to deal with copying configuration information is to prepare for it from day one, and keep a log of everything that you touch, and why. Given the right tools, a restore of system information can be as trivial as a issuing a single comnand. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message