Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 23:02:09 -0400 From: Aaron Jeremias Luz <aaron@csh.rit.edu> To: "Keith S.Huff" <kshuff@fast.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moving filesystems to another drive Message-ID: <19980520230209.03820@homenet> In-Reply-To: <35630D3B.60AB51D4@ars.ml.org>; from Alex Osokin on Wed, May 20, 1998 at 05:05:00PM %2B0000 References: <Chameleon.980519210716.kshuff@kshuff.fast.net> <35630D3B.60AB51D4@ars.ml.org>
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On Wed, May 20, 1998 at 05:05:00PM +0000, Alex Osokin wrote: > I'm was asking here some time ago about the same. > > Finally I got such solution: > Do disklabel and newfs on your new drive (you may type /stand/sysinstall as root then follow your intuition :)) > Then mount your / on new drive to /mnt for example and do > > tar cf - /etc | tar xvpf - -C /mnt > tar cf - /.... | tar xvpf - -C /mnt > > for every dir in your old / except /mnt :) Or you could just use tar -C / -cf - . | tar -C /mnt --exclude mnt/\* -xvpf - after you've mounted all your filesystems at the correct mount points. The --exclude switch is also useful if you don't want to copy over /home, /usr/src, /usr/ports/distfiles, or whatever. Have fun, Aaron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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