Re: How to move netbsd to another drive?

On Fri, 15 May 2020, [email protected] wrote:

>>>> man dd
>>> That doesn't always work.  I got an unmountable, unreadable file system
>>> when$
>
> Assuming the new filesystem is formatted and mountable and you just want
> to migrate, why not use pax as described in the RAID guide:
>
> 16.3.7. Migrating System to RAID[s/RAID/new file system/]
>
> # mount /dev/raid0a /mnt
> # df -h /mnt
> Filesystem        Size       Used      Avail %Cap Mounted on
> /dev/raid0a       8.9G       2.0K       8.5G   0% /mnt
> # cd /; pax -v -X -rw -pe . /mnt
> [NOTE - does not cross mount points - need to repeat in each mount directory]
> [...snip...]
> The NetBSD install now exists on the RAID filesystem.

Note that, for some architectures, you might also need to update boot 
blocks...   :)


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