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[Per Engelbrecht]

Hi Dimitri

>
>> Keeping in mind that alle the data from / down are important, the
>> standard procedure adding_a_disk won't work due to the dd part.
>> A simple mount (finding disk from dmesg) didn't work eighter ..
>> Both running system and disk use UFS2.
>>
>> Maybe I'm overlooking the obvious, but what besides the above
>> would do the trick ?
>
> Have you tried dump/restore?
>
> (see
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/
disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK)
>
> You'll be wanting the reverse of what's given here, or some
> variant.
>
> 1) Use either a LiveCD, or another FreeBSD box with an extra disk.
>
> 2) Use fdisk and disklabel to set-up the extra disk like the one on
> your customer's machine.
>
> 3) Install the disk from the customer's machine.
>
> 4) Mount both disks in appropriate places:
>
> /dev/(blank)s1a on /mnt/copy/
> /dev/(blank)s1f on /mnt/copy/usr
> /dev/(blank)s1d on /mnt/copy/var
>
> and
>
> /dev/(cust)s1a on /mnt/customer/
> /dev/(cust)s1f on /mnt/customer/usr
> /dev/(cust)s1d on /mnt/customer/var
>
> (adapt to your slice layout and disk device)
>
> 5) dump & restore:
>
>  cd /mnt/copy
>  dump 0af - /mnt/customer/ | restore xf -
>
> This will take awhile, depending on the size & speed of each of the
> disks.
>
> Good luck!

(sorry for this late reply, but something came up)
First of all I appreciate your thorough answer very much.
I'll have a go at the livecd/cd2 first and let you and the rest of you
know the result. Thank you.

respectfully
/per
per at xterm.dk


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