Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 20:21:53 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Migrating freebsd to a larger partition? Message-ID: <200103190221.f2J2Lre33063@grumpy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Message from "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> of "Sat, 17 Mar 2001 21:40:44 EST." <210580000.984883244@pyanfar.ece.cmu.edu>
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"Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" writes: > On Saturday, March 17, 2001 20:27:37 -0600, David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> > wrote: > +----- > | By any chance is there an issue with your MB BIOS and (presumably ATA) > | drives greater than 2G? > +--->8 > > I think I mentioned da0s3... it's SCSI and there should be no such issues. You are right. I should have noticed that. Guess I got sidetracked by your mention of CHS. While I have moved operational installations of FreeBSD from partition to partition and/or drive to drive in the past with success (using dump/ restore), I consider it worthwhile every 2 or 3 years to wipe and reinstall. A good way to "clean house". Finds cruft possibly left from upgrades, uninstalled ports, or something I was experimenting with and simply forgot or missed cleaning up after. Also forces me to identify what I consider important. In your situation I'd try a clean install from CDROM to the new slice. Then cherry pick the config files and such that you want to keep. Rather than move ports, I'd pkg_install or "make install" each fresh. You can leave the old 2G slice laying around as long as it takes to feel comfortable that you found everything. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@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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