What's an easy way to replace a drive?

[bob at a1poweruser.com]

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Anthony
Atkielski
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 1:58 PM
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: What's an easy way to replace a drive?

Gary Smithe writes:

> May not be the best answer, but if the drive's data is still
intact
> (i.e. readable) and the replacement will be identical, maybe try
DD or
> similar from a bootable "rescue" cd, like freesbie?  If not that,
then
> you may be able to copy the data between the 2 drives using same
said
> bootable CD after creating the partitions.

Is it possible to dd the entire contents of one drive into a single
file
on another drive (assuming the latter drive is big enough)?  If so,
I
could save time by just copying the drive wholesale to a huge file
on
another drive, replacing it, then copying everything back.  Not sure
if
"whole drive" would include content outside the FS, though (?).

--
Anthony


_______________________________________________
freebsd-questions at freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
To unsubscribe, send any mail to
"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"