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Date:      Fri, 5 Nov 2004 16:20:12 +0100
From:      "Matthias F. Brandstetter" <haimat@lame.at>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Transferring system to a new hard drive
Message-ID:  <200411051620.12304.haimat@lame.at>
In-Reply-To: <8292450b0411050713536e2e0e@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <8292450b0411050713536e2e0e@mail.gmail.com>

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---------- 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

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