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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!psinntp!psinntp!news.columbia.edu!merhaba.cc.columbia.edu!jyc3 From: jyc3@merhaba.cc.columbia.edu (James Y Cho) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: moving FreeBSD to a new Hard Drive? Date: 20 Oct 1996 02:55:12 GMT Organization: Columbia University Lines: 13 Distribution: usa Message-ID: <54c4ag$4ob@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: merhaba.cc.columbia.edu Hello. I'd like to move my FreeBSD from its current 200M drive to a partition in a new 2G drive, without having to re-install and re-config everything. (I have no physical space to just add-and-mount the new drive, sadly). Has anyone done this easily? I was thinking of doing a minimal install on the new drive, and then copying everything over (kernel and all) but I'm sure somewhere something is configured to the actual geometry of the old drive, so I'd have to be very careful... Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks.