Re: I need some help

[Clifton Royston <cliftonr@lava.net>]

On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 10:27:22AM -0500, Andrew Falanga wrote:
> The first is a 400mb Maxtor and the second is a 200mb Maxtor.  

400? Geeze, that's big! <g>  (Bigger than the first I installed on
anyway...)

> Well, it's full.  How do I move the contents from
> that drive to the other, and make everything work, without have to
> reinstall OpenBSD.

Answers (RTFM mix)

A1: man pax

A2: man dump
    man restore

Answers (friendlier mix)

  I did a lot of this when I was upgrading my hard disk.  To keep track
of what you're doing, I recommend you do something like this:

mkdir /newusr
mount /dev/wd1a /usr 
mount /dev/whatevah /newusr

  pax with the -p e and -rw flags is one way to do what you want, see
the examples in the man pages; it'll be something like:
  cd /usr; pax -p e -rw . /newusr

  Since you're moving a complete file system, you can also use a
pipeline from dump | restore with appropriate parameters.  This only
works right when you're moving a whole file system or partition around,
but will end up being a little faster.  Again, there ought to be some
examples in the man pages, but it'll be similar to:
  newfs /newusr
  cd /newusr; dump -0 /usr | restore -r 

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