Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 16:18:55 -0500 From: Nicholas Basila <mlists@northglobe.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's an easy way to replace a drive? Message-ID: <42432EBF.50704@northglobe.com> In-Reply-To: <154939230.20050324195513@wanadoo.fr> References: <1735169762.20050324050924@wanadoo.fr> <42426471.9040007@northglobe.com> <154939230.20050324195513@wanadoo.fr>
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Anthony Atkielski wrote: >Nicholas Basila writes: > > > >>You can back up to tape and restore in single user mode. If /var and >>/tmp aren't too big, you could boot into single user mode, >>mount /usr >>mount -r /var (just to be safe) >>mount -r /tmp >> >> > > > >>and create tar balls or even use dump to file (use the device in /dev as >>source, of course) with /var and /tmp unmounted. >> >> > > > >>Then, reboot into single user mode with the new disk, set up the disk >>the way you want it with fdisk and bsdlabel, and then untar or restore >>from dump. >> >> > >Can I boot from the FreeBSD boot CD and avoid mounting anything on any >of the hard drives at all? (That's not a problem in this case, since the >root is on a different drive, but if I ever had to replace the drive >containing the root I'm just wondering how to go about it.) > > > Sure... just use the live disk. As long as you can access the necessary /dev entries from the CD, you can copy it.
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