migrate system to new HD question

[Szymon K.]

On Tuesday 16 March 2004 04:11, Terrac Skiens wrote:
>  Hello All,
>
>   I have been running a FreeBSD system for fun & semi-pro uses for about 4
> years. In all that time I only upgraded the Hard Disk once. That upgrade
> came at the same time as an OS upgrade, and at that time the server was
> used for much less. Now the applications, configuration, and data are all
> very important to me.
>
>   So now it's time to upgrade again. and I want to migrate all the data
> from one disk (20gb) to another (80gb). Does anyone know of a way of
> imaging one drive onto the other? Idealy I would like to increase some of
> the slices as well, but that may not be possible.
>
>   If anyone knows of a way, please let me know.

There's a nice HOWTO @
 http://lantech.geekvenue.net/chucktips/jason/chuck/1004897633/index_html

I'd used it to migrate my FreeBSD 4.9 install to a new disk. Takes some time 
but works superb.

Take Care...
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