Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 13:00:05 -0500 From: "B. Cook" <bcook@poklib.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving to a new disk.. Message-ID: <4575B3A5.2050908@poklib.org> In-Reply-To: <457594C2.90803@poklib.org> References: <457594C2.90803@poklib.org>
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B. Cook wrote: > Hello all, > > I've got a dying drive on my hands.. and I know I found a doc/guide on > the handbook before regarding this.. > > something like.. > > # tar cf - --one-file-system -C /var . | tar xpvf - -C /mnt/var > > where the new drive is fsck'd and mounted at /mnt .. > > or something else.. > > where is that? > > or how would I do that? > > I just want to take this 20G drive and copy it to a 30G drive.. > > what would be the best way? > > (and I need to talk to someone over the phone about this.. it's his box > and he has no inet) > > Thanks in advance. Where could I tell him to get a live cd? the installer CDs offer the option to drop into single user mode.. but it just goes right to the installer.. :P
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