ufs to zfs

[Matthew Seaman]

On 24/10/2016 19:58, jd1008 wrote:
> The OP says he does have an external drive which the bios does not allow
> booting from.
> He can he back up  (tar) the current system that is UFS based to the
> external drive,
> clobber the ufs partition by simply formatting it as a ZFS partition,
> and at some
> point, (after appropriate admin of zfs partition), tar the system back
> into the zfs partition.
> Is this "doable"? (Pardon the bad "english").

He wouldn't be able to clobber the UFS partition if he was booted from
it.  So he needs to boot from something else.  Supposing that, then yes,
you could do this.  You'ld need to boot from some other media -- a
bootable USB stick perhaps, or an installer DVD image, the image for
either of which can be downloaded from ftp.freebsd.org

	Cheers,

	Matthew



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