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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!inXS.uu.net!nntp.inet.fi!news.funet.fi!news.cs.hut.fi!news.clinet.fi!usenet From: mickey@cantina.clinet.fi (Mika Ruohotie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Tranfer of system Date: 28 Jun 1996 18:17:52 GMT Organization: Clinet, Espoo, Finland Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4r17kg$ecr@news.clinet.fi> References: <4qh8i6$ot3@ustsu10.ust.hk> <31CCE7E3.41C6@onthenet.com.au> <4qqlkf$10p@anorak.coverform.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: cantina.clinet.fi Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> wrote: >Tony Griffiths (tonyg@onthenet.com.au) wrote: [ways to do change harddisks under freebsd] i always do it like this: i use the boot.flp to partition/disklabel the new harddisk (booting only with it) then i boot the priginal machine with the new harddisk, then i mount all the new filesystems under /mnt /mnt1 /mnt2 and so on (i usually have atleast / swap /usr /var and maybe /home /www /ftp /scratch) then i cd to the root of the filesystem i want to transfer and am using find and cpio: find listing files and directories -print | cpio -pdmv /mnt /mnt being whatever mountpoint i want it to end... "listing files and dirs" means in that place i have everything separated by a space what i want to move i find it efficient enough, comments? after all is done, i can easily boot from the new hd (after checking /etc/fstab looks right) mickey