On 1/6/06, Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found one of my firewalls has a 4Gig drive. While it is still > working fine, I am thinking maybe I should remove the 10 year old thing > and maybe move it somewhere a little less stressed). > > I googled and faq'd and nothing recent came up, so I was wondering if > this was the best way to move the stuff over. > > * Put in the new drive > * Boot with cd / floppy > * Partition new drive with the same layout, but bigger partitions > * For each, mount old and new and dump from one to the other (per faq) > * Recreate devices > * Remove old drive reboot > > Does this seem sane?
Yes. Don't forget to add the boot block, and keep in mind the i386 BIOS limitations on the root partition. Kevin
