5 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-questionsRe: Moving filesystems to another drive| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| ksh...@fast.net | May 19, 1998 8:56 pm | |
| Alex Osokin | May 20, 1998 10:04 am | |
| Doug White | May 20, 1998 1:43 pm | |
| Aaron Jeremias Luz | May 20, 1998 8:01 pm | |
| Randall Hopper | May 25, 1998 3:32 pm |
| Subject: | Re: Moving filesystems to another drive | |
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| From: | Doug White (dwh...@gdi.uoregon.edu) | |
| Date: | May 20, 1998 1:43:24 pm | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-questions | |
On Tue, 19 May 1998 ksh...@fast.net wrote:
I am pretty new to FreeBSD and have installed 2.1.6 onto an old 486 that was collecting dust in the basement. I am using this maching as a learning platform,
Good way to start.
my problem is that the machine only had a 300 meg hard drive at the time of installation. I have since acquired a 1.2 Gb drive and was wondering if it was possible to transfer the contents of the 300 meg drive over to the 1.2 gig drive. I dont want to lose any of the data, or keep the 300 meg drive in the system, so re-installing to the 1.2 Gb drive is not an option. Any help appreciated, thanks.
Yeah, should be pretty easy. You will want to format the 1.2gig as a FreeBSD disk partitioned as you like, then just bulk-copy the partitions over one at a time. My disk formatting tutorial at http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat should have all the information you need. Considering that I did exactly the same thing when I wrote the tutorial, it should work for you :)
Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwh...@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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