Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 18:55:23 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: joe@krisberg-haines.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Copying Hard Drives Message-ID: <199901060055.SAA36312@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from joe@krisberg-haines.com of "Tue, 05 Jan 1999 08:42:00 CST." <3.0.5.32.19990105084200.00899820@krisberg-haines.com>
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joe@krisberg-haines.com writes: > I need to copy FreeBSD to another hard drive. Does anyone know the easiest > way to do this? This question seems to be popping up quite a bit lately now everybody got new HD's for Christmas. 1) Install your new HD and partition it with Microsoft's FDISK.EXE. This seems to prevent geometry issues with some combinations. 2) Boot FreeBSD and use /stand/sysinstall to make FreeBSD partitions. And make the filesystems while you are in there using the same partition names as your old system. Let sysinstall write boot blocks on your new drive. 2a) Its best at this point to reboot into single user mode. Don't mount any filesystems other than root. 3) Mount the new root partition somewhere such as /mnt 4) "dump -0af - / | (cd /mnt; restore -rf - )" The above should create the mount points for the rest of your filesystems to be used when looping thru steps 3 and 4. 5) Repeat steps 3 and 4 for each of your FreeBSD filesystems. 6) Don't forget to do the /var filesystem, that's the one I keep forgetting. 7) Shutdown and put the new HD in the place of the old. If you don't maintain the same partition names for FreeBSD as the old, then you should edit /mnt/etc/fstab to use the new partitions before leaving the old disk. Example: /dev/sd0s2g is my /home partition. If I were to mount another drive to copy my running FreeBSD system to, I'd want to make sure /dev/sd1s2g is the new /home partion mounted on /mnt/home. Then when the original disk is removed the new disk will become /dev/sd0s2g and all will be OK once again. But if for some reason I put /mnt/home on /dev/sd1s2h instead then I'd better fix /mnt/etc/fstab before moving the HD's around. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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