On Mar 26, Remo Lacho wrote: > dump and restore are your friends. > > Try something like this for each new slice (partition): > > Create your new slice on the new disk. > > newfs the new slice - newfs -U /dev/[new_slice] > > mount the new slices - mount /dev/[new_slice] /mnt > > dump and restore from the old slice to the new slice - > dump -L -0 -f- /[old_slice] | (cd /mnt; restore -r -v -f-)
If you want to ensure that the system is quiescent before doing the copy, you should actually boot from an alternative media and do the copy using those utilities. I actually needed to do this for Windows XP and I was too cheap to pay for any of the commercial software, so I used g4u: http://www.feyrer.de/g4u It's based on NetBSD and worked great for my Windows PC. I was cloning from a smaller to larger HD, so I had to use another utility to extend the partitions without formatting. Good luck, -Clint _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
