On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 12:25:25PM -0500, Bill 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, but just softRAIDing with a second drive is pretty good too, and
avoids having to test the new drive too extensively. (It should still be
tested, as you don't want it smoking the entire machine, but it's more
fault-tolerant. Especially if you use different busses...)
Other than that, it works. Be sure to installboot(8), as pointed out by
others.
Joachim
