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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in2.uu.net!134.48.1.31!spool.mu.edu!sol.net!spool.mu.edu!newsspool.sol.net!howland.erols.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news-in-east.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!207.67.253.7!atmnet.net!news.lightside.com!dcs59.dcsi.net!user From: fred@lightside.net (Fred Condo) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installing new hard drive... Date: Thu, 03 Jul 1997 11:27:57 -0700 Organization: Lightside, Inc. Lines: 30 Message-ID: <fred-0307971127580001@dcs59.dcsi.net> References: <33BBDBA5.69E0@eos.ncsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dcs59.dcsi.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: MT-NewsWatcher 2.3.1 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43881 In article <33BBDBA5.69E0@eos.ncsu.edu>, jbrinkley@crosslogic.com wrote: >I have a new hard drive, one that's a lot bigger than the other three I >have running BSD. FreeBSD is spanned across three hard drives >currently, and I'd like to transfer their information to this new hard >drive. Does anyone have a safe idea on how I can get the system >transfered from a three disk-based FreeBSD system to one hard disk? > >The three disks are all around 425M, and the new one is a 3.2G or 3.1G. > >I'd really appreciate some advice if you can spare it. > >Thanks, >webmaster@crosslogic.com If you can mount the new drive alongside the existing ones, what you can do is this: Mount the new drive on /mnt Then, do this: cd / find / -print | egrep -v /mnt | cpio -pvudma /mnt That will transfer all your files to the new drive. -- http://www.lightside.net/~fred/ + net access + http://www.lightside.net/ "Attempts to control the use of encryption technology are wrong in principle, unworkable in practice, and damaging to the long term economic value of the information networks." - UK Labour Party