Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 09:49:50 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: moving to larger drive Message-ID: <20040912094901.H59154@chylonia.3miasto.net> In-Reply-To: <200409112148.i8BLmVU13925@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <200409112148.i8BLmVU13925@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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> > Use fdisk to slice and do the mbr. > In 4.xxx use disklabel to do disk labeling (partitioning) and boot block. > In 5.xxx use bsdlabel to do disk labeling and boot block. > > Then use newfs to create filesystems in the partitions created > with disklabel/bsdlabel. > > > > > manually > > ? > > > > > > i know how to do it in NetBSD, but here it's a bit different. > > > > i need to move everything from one disk to another. > > Once you create the new drive, then, in single user, dump(8) | restore(8) > from the old partitions/file systems to the new ones. > that is what i know but fdisk/bsdlabel i do not. is fdisk compulsory? in NetBSD i don't create fdisk partition table at all just bsd label
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