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Date:      Mon, 18 May 1998 15:44:38 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "James A. Mutter" <jmutter@insomnia.norden1.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New harddrive...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980518154419.9951H-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980518064125.287A-100000@insomnia.norden1.com>

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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



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