On Wed, 15 May 2002, Dan Langille wrote: > A disk in remote 4.5-stable box started to develop bad clusters. The > hosting company replaced the drive for me. I now have a 4.5-RELEASE > system (they have 4.5-RELEASE drives as stock items). > > The defective drive is almost mounted in this box. I'm tempted to tar the > old disk over to the new disk and get everything back running that way. > It's that or upgrade to stable, install about 30 or so packages, and > manually configure everything. > > How feasible is copying from ad2 to ad0 given that I'm booting and running > off ad0? My thoughts are that it's faster but higher risk.
Be careful spamming the existing files, if the tar keels over and eats, oh say, libc.... Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
