On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 05:46:50PM +0200, Christian Walther wrote: > On 18/04/07, Amarendra Godbole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I have FreeBSD 6.2 installed on a Dell Latitude D400 laptop. The > >harddisk is 40G, with FreeBSD occupying about 25G, and remaining to > >Windows. I have received a replacement for this hard disk, which is a > >bigger capacity one - 80G. I have to move the existing FreeBSD system > >from the old to the new hard disk. I did find something here: > >http://www.freebsddiary.org/driveswap.php. Still, I'd like to hear > >someone's experience regarding the same. Thanks! > > I recently replaced a dying Hard Disk with a newer and bigger one. To > move the data to the new disk I used dump/restore, and stored the data > on my server. > 1. dumped all slices from the machine to the server > 2. replaced the disks > 3. did a basic FreeBSD install from CD ROM to get a proper disk layout > and a boot manager. Because of this installation I got the same slices > as on the old disk, just with a new size matching the new disks > specification. So the slice names remained the same. > 4. restored the previously dumped slices to the new disk
Just a comment here. You seem to be switching around the terms a little. You would dump a partition, not a slice. In FreeBSD, slices are the primary divisions, of which there can be up to 4 and the subdivisions of each slice, upon which filesystems are built are called partitions. It is popular to get these turned around. Even the man pages have goofed up in a couple of places. It is handy to refer to the division that gets dumped and restored as a 'filesystem' since by that time it has already been not only divided but new-fs into a read/write-able filesystem. By doing that, it reduces some of the opportunity for confusion in terms. Otherwise, what you explain here is reasonable. ////jerry > > BTW: As long as you don't remove/destroy the data on the original disk > there's nothing desastrous that can be happen to you. If the method > you choose doesn't work somehow, you can still create another backup > of the original disk. > >From all possible and existing methods you should choose the one you > feel most comfortable with, e.g. that you understand completely, and > where you know the needed tools most. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
