On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 12:25:25PM -0500, Bill wrote:
> I found one of my firewalls has a 4Gig drive. While it is still
> working fine, I am thinking maybe I should remove the 10 year old thing
> and maybe move it somewhere a little less stressed).
>
> I googled and faq'd and nothing recent came up, so I was wondering if
> this was the best way to move the stuff over.
I usually use dump for those kind of tasks.
> * Put in the new drive
> * Boot with cd / floppy
> * Partition new drive with the same layout, but bigger partitions
> * For each, mount old and new and dump from one to the other (per faq)
> * Recreate devices
I can't imagine any devices that to be recreated.
* dont forget to installboot(8) the new disk or else it wont boot.
> * Remove old drive reboot
>
> Does this seem sane?
> Thanks
Janjaap van Velthooven
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