From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 18 15:46:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA26385 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 May 1998 15:46:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA26338 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 15:45:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA10300; Mon, 18 May 1998 15:44:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 15:44:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "James A. Mutter" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New harddrive... In-Reply-To: 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 On Mon, 18 May 1998, James A. Mutter wrote: > > 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? Yup. > 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. See http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat/ Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message