On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 04:07:27PM -0600, Dean Hollister wrote: > > Dear All, > > A quick question, and I've searched the FAQ/Handbook to no avail... > > One of the machines I maintain has developed bad sectors on it's /usr > filesystem. I can mount the filesystem R/O, so is it possible to install a > new drive, partition it in an identical fashion to the faulty drive and > copy the filesystems across to the new drive and then boot from the new > drive? > > Is there a walkthrough on the best way to do this? >
This sounds like what you're looking for: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK I've never done this but it seems to be the traditional recommendation for this sort of thing. > Regards, > > d. -- Danny _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"