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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newshub.tc.umn.edu!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: moving to a new disk Date: 3 Aug 1996 19:40:37 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4u09vl$qnk@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4ths1o$6af@olorin.nask.pl> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E pi@mantis.brp.waw.pl (Piotr Szafarczyk) wrote: > i need to move my system to a new hard disk. what should i reinstall, copy, > change? Copy it logically. I.e., hook the new disk as the second disk into the existing system. Label it (not forgetting the bootstrap -- the -B option in disklabel(8)), create the filesystems, and mount them somewhere under /mnt. Then, for each file system do something like this: cd /mnt dump 0f - /dev/rwd0a | restore rvf - cd /mnt/usr dump 0f - /dev/rwd0e | restore rvf - etc. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)