Re: Transferring system to a new hard drive
On 2004-11-05 09:13, CHris Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My original install of FreeBSD is on a 30 gig hard drive, I want to > move it to an 80 gig I now have, but i don't want to have to reinstall > everything since I've spent hours waiting for some ports to install. > > So after googling and searching I found a few ideas of how to migrate > to a new hard drive but none which I really trust, (ghosting, > acronis(sp?)) You can do it using standard tools, provided with the base system. I recently moved all my data to a new 200 GB IDE disk, and kept a set of step-by-step notes while doing this. They are available online at my weblog, if that's any help while you plan your own migration to a larger hard disk: http://keramida.serverhive.com/weblog/archives/daemonizing-a-new-disk > If I do move it over will I have ot make new slices to take advantage > of the bigger hard drive? If this is the case will I lose what data is > already in the slice or can it adjust without any hitches or loss of > data? I made new slices to the larger disk, installed a clean copy of FreeBSD using 'make installworld' and then moved all my user data to the new /home partition. You don't *have* to move everything. But it's a nice chance to clean up things if you have been upgrading from the sources during the past X years, like I had been doing. - Giorgos ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Transferring system to a new hard drive
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 09:13:25AM -0600, CHris Rich wrote: > My original install of FreeBSD is on a 30 gig hard drive, I want to > move it to an 80 gig I now have, but i don't want to have to reinstall > everything since I've spent hours waiting for some ports to install. > [...] > If I do move it over will I have ot make new slices to take advantage > of the bigger hard drive? What I usually do is: - install the new hd as second drive in the running system - partition/slice it as you like - newfs the new partitions - mount the whole structure somewhere, like * mount /dev/ad1s1a /mnt * mount /dev/ad1s1e /mnt/usr * mount /dev/ad1s1f /mnt/var etc. - go single user - cd / && find | cpio -padmuv /mnt - check /mnt/etc/fstab - write boot sector to ad1 - shutdown, replace old drive with new drive - done The find|cpio combination will copy your entire system 1:1 to the new hard disk and it's slice structure below /mnt. HTH, - D. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Transferring system to a new hard drive
-- quoting CHris Rich -- > My original install of FreeBSD is on a 30 gig hard drive, I want to > move it to an 80 gig I now have, but i don't want to have to reinstall > everything since I've spent hours waiting for some ports to install. > > So after googling and searching I found a few ideas of how to migrate > to a new hard drive but none which I really trust, (ghosting, > acronis(sp?)) > > If I do move it over will I have ot make new slices to take advantage > of the bigger hard drive? If this is the case will I lose what data is > already in the slice or can it adjust without any hitches or loss of > data? > > Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated I had exactly the same issue this week, until I found this link: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK HTH! Greetings, Matthias -- The weak and nerdy are admired for their computer-programming abilities. -- Homer Simpson Bart vs. Australia ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Transferring system to a new hard drive
My original install of FreeBSD is on a 30 gig hard drive, I want to move it to an 80 gig I now have, but i don't want to have to reinstall everything since I've spent hours waiting for some ports to install. So after googling and searching I found a few ideas of how to migrate to a new hard drive but none which I really trust, (ghosting, acronis(sp?)) If I do move it over will I have ot make new slices to take advantage of the bigger hard drive? If this is the case will I lose what data is already in the slice or can it adjust without any hitches or loss of data? Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
