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Date:      Mon, 26 Mar 2001 11:27:50 -0600
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        Forrest <praxis@techpraxis.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Best way to clone an existing FreeBSD installation?
Message-ID:  <15039.31766.799607.792546@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <129203990@toto.iv>

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Forrest <praxis@techpraxis.com> types:
> What is the best way to accomplish the following:
> 
> Have a working installation (4.2-CURRENT) on one 45 G IDE hard disk (only 11
> G are in use), and I would like to copy it EXACTLY to another, 30 G hard
> disk, so that I can (hopefully) replace the 1st hard disk (the working one
> has no errors) with the copy. Or is this too unwieldy?

Detailed instructions and a discussion are in the FAQ at <URL:
http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/admin.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK >.

	<mike
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