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Date:      Sun, 21 Nov 1999 10:29:10 -0600 (CST)
From:      David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>
To:        Edward Knight <efknight@bellsouth.net>
Cc:        "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: copying filesystems into larger disk
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96.991121102117.84569B-100000@shell-2.enteract.com>
In-Reply-To: <3837D44A.A4D8544F@bellsouth.net>

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On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Edward Knight wrote:

> My original FBSD disk is running out of space.  I got a larger disk and
> partitioned it
> for FBS, created larger filesystems with the same mount points using the
> minimal instalation.
> 
> Now I want to use cpio to copy the filesystems from the old disk to the
> new one.  I think this is what I need to do, please correct me if I'm
> wrong.
> 
> From / in the old disk do  find . -depth -print > /usr/tmp/fs.cp

Faster and easier to do this in a pipe:

mount your new disk as /newroot, and the filesystems that will live on it as
/newroot/var, /newroot/usr, etc.

tar cf - / /var /usr | ( cd /newroot && tar xf -)

You could do the same thing with a find|cpio|cpio pipeline as well.


David Scheidt



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