From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 17 15:43:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA06641 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 17 May 1998 15:43:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from insomnia.norden1.com (insomnia.norden1.com [192.153.35.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA06568 for ; Sun, 17 May 1998 15:43:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmutter@insomnia.norden1.com) Received: from localhost (jmutter@localhost) by insomnia.norden1.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id GAA00289 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 06:44:18 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jmutter@insomnia.norden1.com) Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 06:44:18 -0400 (EDT) From: "James A. Mutter" To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: New harddrive... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I just got a new hd and I want to move *everything* from the old to the new. I'm just not sure how to go about it. I was thinking I could use dd to move the bootsector, but I'm afraid that the drive geometry and other unwanted data will go with it. Is this correct? Now, assuming that dd works for the bs, whats the best way to move everything else? I think I could do it with tar, but I'm not sure if that will preserve everything, mostly the different slices and such. The OS is FreeBSD 2.2.6. I'd appreciate any help/comments. Thanks, Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message