From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 18 18:22: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-76-236.knology.net [24.214.76.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E85EB37B718 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 18:22:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2J2Lre33063; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 20:21:53 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Message-Id: <200103190221.f2J2Lre33063@grumpy.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Migrating freebsd to a larger partition? In-reply-to: Message from "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" of "Sat, 17 Mar 2001 21:40:44 EST." <210580000.984883244@pyanfar.ece.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 20:21:53 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" writes: > On Saturday, March 17, 2001 20:27:37 -0600, David Kelly > wrote: > +----- > | By any chance is there an issue with your MB BIOS and (presumably ATA) > | drives greater than 2G? > +--->8 > > I think I mentioned da0s3... it's SCSI and there should be no such issues. You are right. I should have noticed that. Guess I got sidetracked by your mention of CHS. While I have moved operational installations of FreeBSD from partition to partition and/or drive to drive in the past with success (using dump/ restore), I consider it worthwhile every 2 or 3 years to wipe and reinstall. A good way to "clean house". Finds cruft possibly left from upgrades, uninstalled ports, or something I was experimenting with and simply forgot or missed cleaning up after. Also forces me to identify what I consider important. In your situation I'd try a clean install from CDROM to the new slice. Then cherry pick the config files and such that you want to keep. Rather than move ports, I'd pkg_install or "make install" each fresh. You can leave the old 2G slice laying around as long as it takes to feel comfortable that you found everything. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message