Note that it is important to use dump/restore when you have more that one
partition. With cp, everything will be copied to one partition.

On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Matthias Pretzer wrote:
> * Anthony Lieuallen [26.09.2001]:
> > Hi, my internet router/server is running on a tiny little 428 meg hard
> > drive, and an otherwise unsed 6gb drive has just fallen into my hands,
> > so I've decided to give it some room for other files.
> >
> > What might be the right procedure to correctly copy the existing NetBSD
> > (1.5.1) system to the new drive and then boot from it as if nothing
> > happend (besides the drive growing many times in size :) )?
>
> Hi,
>
> I just did the exactly same thing to my router.
>
> Connect the new hdd as wd1 (in my case), boot into single user mode.
> Create the necessary filesystems on the new disk.
> If you have /tmp on your root partition, you have to mount it rw
> now. Then do (assuming wd1a shall become your new root partition and
> wd1e your new /usr, and wd0e ist you existing /usr, wd0a your / ):
>
> # mount /dev/wd0e /usr
> # mount /dev/wd1a /mnt
> # dump 0f - / | ( cd /mnt ; restore rf - )
> # mount /dev/wd1e /mnt/usr
> # dump 0f - /usr | ( cd /mnt/usr ; restore rf - )
> # rm /mnt/restoresymtable /mnt/usr/restoresymtable
>
> To make your new disk bootable, do:
>
> cd /usr/mdec/
> ./installboot biosboot.sym /dev/rwd1a
>
> See dump(8), restore(8), installboot(8) for details

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