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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: [HELP] Change root partition
Date: 14 Feb 1996 08:22:57 GMT
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sycheng@cis.ufl.edu (Hsiao-Yang Cheng) writes:
> I am transfering my FreeBSD system into a new HD. The major problem I
> have is how to move the root partition to the new one. If you have
> good way, please teach me. I would appreciate it.
disklabel and newfs your new drive and its partitions. Then, for each
partition (assuming your new disk is sd1, and the old one is sd0, and
you've got partitions a and e):
for part in a e
do
mount /dev/sd1${part} /mnt
dump 0f - /dev/rsd0${part} | (cd /mnt; restore rvf -)
rm /mnt/restoresymtable
umount /mnt
done
Naturally, this is best done in single-user mode, to guarantee that
both copies are identical.
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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