Moving to a new disk..

[Eric]

Ronald Paul wrote:
> B. Cook wrote:
>
>> I've got a dying drive on my hands.. and I know I found a doc/guide 
>> on the handbook before regarding this..
>>
>> something like..
>>
>> # tar cf - --one-file-system -C /var . | tar xpvf - -C /mnt/var
>
> [..]
>
>> what would be the best way?
>
> I do it this way:
>
>     dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad2 bs=8m
>
> Where /dev/ad0 is the source disk and /dev/ad2 is the destination 
> disk. Make sure nothing is mounted. This process takes place at sector 
> level, so the boot sector, the partition table and even empty sectors 
> are copied. That someone might want to resize some partitions 
> afterwards to be able to use that extra 10 GB.
>
this is one reason why dump is better. it only dumps what there is to 
dump. no need to worry about the extra space, etc after the fact