Re: What's an easy way to replace a drive?

[Nicholas Basila]

Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Nicholas Basila writes:
 

You can back up to tape and restore in single user mode. If /var and
/tmp aren't too big, you could boot into single user mode,
mount /usr
mount -r /var    (just to be safe)
mount -r /tmp
   

 

and create tar balls or even use dump to file (use the device in /dev as
source, of course)  with /var and /tmp unmounted.
   

 

Then, reboot into single user mode with the new disk, set up the disk 
the way you want it with fdisk and bsdlabel, and then untar or restore
from dump.
   

Can I boot from the FreeBSD boot CD and avoid mounting anything on any
of the hard drives at all? (That's not a problem in this case, since the
root is on a different drive, but if I ever had to replace the drive
containing the root I'm just wondering how to go about it.)
 

Sure... just use the live disk. As long as you can access the necessary 
/dev entries from the CD, you can copy it.
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