Chris Roos wrote:
Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
Chris Roos wrote:
One final question is whether the dump/restore process is the best
approach in this instance? I have read about using dd but am not
entirely sure whether this would do what I need?
No, you should use dump/restore and if it is the ro
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Good luck,
Ruben
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Hi,
I've recently had the job of moving a FreeBsd installation to another
Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
Chris Roos wrote:
One final question is whether the dump/restore process is the best
approach in this instance? I have read about using dd but am not
entirely sure whether this would do what I need?
No, you should use dump/restore and if it is the root partition you will
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29. umount all open filesystems
--> # umount /tmp
# umount /mnt
# umount /new_mnt
30. exit single user mode and startup
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Chris Roos wrote:
One final question is whether the dump/restore process is the best
approach in this instance? I have read about using dd but am not
entirely sure whether this would do what I need?
No, you should use dump/restore and if it is the root partition you will
need to edit fstab
Hi,
I've recently had the job of moving a FreeBsd installation to another
hard drive.
After quite a lot of reading I got round to following this article[1]
using a VMWare FreeBsd instance. In brief the article uses dump and
restore to move the data from one mounted partition to another in s