Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 23:49:31 +1300 From: "Mark Ibell" <marki@paradise.net.nz> To: <cjclark@alum.mit.edu>, "Bjarne Wichmann Petersen" <mekanix@vip.cybercity.dk> Cc: "FreeBSD-questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Moving setup from one HD to another. Message-ID: <004301c09418$51e768e0$0101a8c0@evileye> References: <200102110908.KAA00613@usr05.cybercity.dk> <20010211013315.J62368@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex>
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The thing to watch for here is that Sysinstall's labelling mechanism doesn't work very well for this sort of thing. What I do is: (i) Use Sysinstall's fdisk option to partition the disk. (I can't get cmd line fdisk to work for some reason!) (ii) Label the disk (e.g. disklabel -e ad1) (iii) Format, mount, etc (iv) Copy data using 'dump piped into restore' or 'pax' Also might have to do a './MAKEDEV' under dev to create the device entries before (iii). Cheers, Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: "Bjarne Wichmann Petersen" <mekanix@vip.cybercity.dk> Cc: "FreeBSD-questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 10:33 PM Subject: Re: Moving setup from one HD to another. > On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 10:06:08AM +0100, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote: > > > > I need to move my setup from one HD to another. I could make a clean > > install, but I've spend a lot of time to get this setup just right, so I'd > > like to keep it. So, how do I go about that without choking on devices, > > symlinks and whatever traps lurks around? > > Pipe dump(8) output on each old partition to restore(8) on the new > one. > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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