Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 19:55:13 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's an easy way to replace a drive? Message-ID: <154939230.20050324195513@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <42426471.9040007@northglobe.com> References: <1735169762.20050324050924@wanadoo.fr> <42426471.9040007@northglobe.com>
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Nicholas Basila writes: > You can back up to tape and restore in single user mode. If /var and > /tmp aren't too big, you could boot into single user mode, > mount /usr > mount -r /var (just to be safe) > mount -r /tmp > and create tar balls or even use dump to file (use the device in /dev as > source, of course) with /var and /tmp unmounted. > Then, reboot into single user mode with the new disk, set up the disk > the way you want it with fdisk and bsdlabel, and then untar or restore > from dump. Can I boot from the FreeBSD boot CD and avoid mounting anything on any of the hard drives at all? (That's not a problem in this case, since the root is on a different drive, but if I ever had to replace the drive containing the root I'm just wondering how to go about it.) -- Anthony
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