Re: switching a full system from an hd to another..

On second thoughts, if this is for a drive failure, you should consider
putting the disk into a one drive RAID frame, and buy a new drive
next week or something. That way next time a drive fails you won't
have to do this, you'll just buy a new drive and make it part of
the RAID frame.

Want instructions on how to do that?

On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 11:29:54AM +0200, William Fletcher wrote:
> If your new drive is wd1.
> 
> fdisk -u wd1
> 
> Make appropriate partitions to match wd0:
> 
> disklabel -e wd1
> 
> newfs your partitions... 
> 
> newfs /dev/wd1a
> newfs /dev/wd1e .... 
> 
> Mount all the file systems under /mnt.. 
> 
> mount /dev/wd1a /mnt
> mount /dev/wd1e /mnt/usr
> etc, etc...
> 
> Then use pax to copy from partition to partition.
> 
> pax -v -X -rw -pe / /mnt 
> pax -v -X -rw -pe /usr /mnt 
> 
> Then, use installboot to make the drive bootable:
> 
> installboot -v -o timeout=5 /dev/rwd1a /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv1
> 
> On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 11:13:38AM +0200, Luca Sironi wrote:
> > Unfortunatly I must substitute the main hd (wd0) of a netbsd4-beta server.
> > What's the speedest way to do it ?
> > Can I simply partition the new hd, copy the whole file system and
> > substitute the hard disk ?
> > 
> > luca
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