From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 5 15:20:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FB1A16A4CE for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2004 15:20:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from allrounder.lame.at (mail.lame.at [195.58.166.252]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAB1B43D5C for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2004 15:20:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from haimat@lame.at) Received: from itchy.lame.at (home.lame.at [80.78.254.138]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by allrounder.lame.at (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2798E2FE87 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2004 16:19:34 +0100 (CET) From: "Matthias F. Brandstetter" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 16:20:12 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <8292450b0411050713536e2e0e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8292450b0411050713536e2e0e@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200411051620.12304.haimat@lame.at> Subject: Re: Transferring system to a new hard drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 15:20:15 -0000 ---------- quoting CHris Rich ---------- > My original install of FreeBSD is on a 30 gig hard drive, I want to > move it to an 80 gig I now have, but i don't want to have to reinstall > everything since I've spent hours waiting for some ports to install. > > So after googling and searching I found a few ideas of how to migrate > to a new hard drive but none which I really trust, (ghosting, > acronis(sp?)) > > If I do move it over will I have ot make new slices to take advantage > of the bigger hard drive? If this is the case will I lose what data is > already in the slice or can it adjust without any hitches or loss of > data? > > Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated I had exactly the same issue this week, until I found this link: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK HTH! Greetings, Matthias -- The weak and nerdy are admired for their computer-programming abilities. -- Homer Simpson Bart vs. Australia