Re: New hard disk, copying data

[Jimmy Johansson <jimmy%Update.UU.SE@localhost>]

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 07:17:41AM +0100, Andrew Smallshaw wrote:
> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 05:07:19PM +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> > 
> > 1) attach the hard disk in an external USB enclosure
> > 2) Partition int
> > 3) Copy the data (how? using tar/untar perhaps?)
> > 4) write the MBR (but how, from the command line? and I don't need
> > the boot selection anymore, just flat into NetBSD)
> 
> Briefly, fdisk then disklabel then newfs the new root partition.
> No need for tar etc if you're mounting it in a USB enclosure, a
> simple cp -Rp will do the trick.  Making the disk bootable is
> slightly more tricky, you need to install the MBR and then the
> primary and secondary boot code (man installboot).
> 

Are you sure that "cp -Rp" will suffice? I have a foggy memory that it
removes the sticky bit?

I would use pax as described in the raid part of the NetBSD guide.

Regards,

Jimmy
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