From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 21 06:41:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 230FE16A4CE for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 06:41:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net (rwcrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.198.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A22D43D1D for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 06:41:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from be-well.no-ip.com ([66.30.196.44]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2004022114411901300dafdfe>; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 14:41:19 +0000 Received: by be-well.no-ip.com (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 71317E; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 09:41:19 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: Tig References: <20040221213841.76391b1c@piglet.goo> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 21 Feb 2004 09:41:19 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20040221213841.76391b1c@piglet.goo> Message-ID: <443c94cx68.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 10 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: [FAQ pointer] Re: Copy old drive to new drive - is it possible? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 14:41:20 -0000 Tig writes: > Hi, I have a hard drive which is on its last legs. I also have new hard > drive to replace the old one. I was wondering if it is possible to > simply copy everything from the old drive to the new (after formating > the new drive) and have my system back up and running, or do I need to > reinstall the OS and everything else? "How do I move my system over to my huge new disk?" http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK