Al Plant wrote:
Aloha,
I am looking for the easiest way to copy a fresh working FreeBSD 8* HD
install (Manolis version) to a bigger HD that I found.
I plan to have the new HD in the same box for doing this copy.
Can I use sysinstall to make the new default slices on the big HD and
then move the OS and directories/files to them?
Last time I did this, it worked fine ... just make sure the "slices" (right
term?)
correspond with your /etc/fstab, or you'll end up in single user or even
stuck at a boot prompt with the new drive the first time out.
What command (utility) do I use? dd or cp or some other to copy the files.
I'd recommend dump and restore ... possibly piping dump *to* restore,
something like:
dump -0 -a -L -u -f - /usr | ( cd /newusr ; restore -ruf - )
HTH.
Thanks....
You're welcome :-)
Kevin Kinsey
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