> Do you use Fossil with or without Venti? > There is many way to do it. > > Without Venti, you could use replica(1) to copy your file system > from the old Fossil to the new Fossil.
Fossil without Venti. Work has kept me busy but now I finally managed to attach the new drive to the system. Plan9 sees it as sdE1. The old drive is sdE0. (Booting off sdE0. This server does not have a CDROM drive.) old drive: su# cat /dev/sdE0/ctl inquiry SAMSUNG SP2004C model SAMSUNG SP2004C serial S07GJ10Y522190 firm VM100-32 wwn 50000f0015522190 flag lba llba smart nop udma 6 reg task 50 cmd 4c017 serr 0 ci 0 is 0 sig 101 sstatus 123 cmd hpcp cr fr pod sud st mode auto sataii geometry 390721968 512 part data 0 390721968 part plan9 63 390716865 part 9fat 63 204863 part nvram 204863 204864 part fossil 204864 389668289 part swap 389668289 390716865 new drive: su# cat /dev/sdE1/ctl inquiry WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0 model WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0 serial WD-WCAD-WCAZA9957825 firm 51.0AB51 wwn 50014ee2b0ed5bde flag lba llba smart nop ata8 sct udma 6 reg task 50 cmd 4c017 serr 0 ci 0 is 0 sig 101 sstatus 123 cmd hpcp cr fr pod sud st mode auto sataii geometry 3907029168 4096 part data 0 3907029168 The new drive is completely blank. It has 4096 byte sector size, and disk/mbr fails. su# disk/mbr -m /386/mbr /dev/sdE1/data mbr: secsize 4096 invalid How to get around this? I don't want to install another OS just to get the MBR in...
