Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 18:43:43 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: jason <jason@welsh.dynip.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: running out of swap space Message-ID: <14773.34095.487349.877854@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <33171886@toto.iv>
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jason writes: > I have a freebsd 4.0 system running just fine, but im running outta swap > space and space in general. I have a brand new 13 gig hard drive that I > want to transfer the system over to. What I really want to do is transfer > the whole drive over to my new 13 gig drive. Is there an easy way to do > this? would something like ghost do me any good? ghost won't do you any good - it would just copy the bits. You can do that yourself, but that's not really a very good idea. What I did (under nearly those conditions) was to decide on what the new system layout should be (in your case, this means at least providing more swap), then did a clean install of FreeBSD on the new / and /usr. Configure it, using the old system as reference. Doing it this way means you've at least cleaned up the system disks, if nothing else. Finally, move the non-system partitions to the new disk, one at a time. You need to newfs and mount the new partitions as well as the old ones, then the command is: (cd /old; tar cvf - .) | (cd /new; tar xpf -) If you're using dump to back the file system up, do a level 0 after that. You can, of course, try the above for the system file systems and well. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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