[buug] Installing new drives?

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Wed Dec 4 16:04:53 PST 2002


Quoting Skip Evans (evans at ncseweb.org):

> What is the best way to move the current system and data to 
> a new drive? This is a replacement, not a second drive.

Cribbing from some old notes:

disklabel da1
newfs filesystems.
mount fs under /da1
for each partion fs on da0:
	cd /da1/$fs
	dump 0f - /$fs  | restore -rf -   #tar's not reliable, here
adjust /da1/etc/fstab
disklabel -B da1
bring system down
Re-jumper da1 to da0; remove old da0

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