Subject: Re: Partitioning question
To: Mauricio <pingouin@bellsouth.net>
From: Lord Isildur <mrfusion@uranium.vaxpower.org>
List: port-pmax
Date: 07/17/2002 15:27:05
put the new one in the machine on a different id, label it, make 
filesystems, and then use dump and restore to copy everything over. 
painless and the new disk has exactly the same stuff, filesystem-wise.

isildur

On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Mauricio wrote:

> 	Ok, now that I know I can netboot my 5000/20 off my Win98 
> box, I am in a bit of a problem:  the machine has only a 512MB HD. 
> When I ran 1.4.1, it seemed to be plenty for my small needs:
> 
> Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/rz0a       31671    23465     6622    77%    /
> /dev/rz0d      296342   244101    37423    86%    /usr
> /dev/rz0f      118590     2311   110349     2%    /home
> kernfs              1        1        0   100%    /kern
> 
> I do not run X in that machine, but I was running apache, perl, and 
> would like to run php, ssh, and those little odds and ends.  I plan 
> on running netatalk so if I need to download stuff off the net, I can 
> mount my user directory (off /home) in the Mac and download straight 
> like that.  Does that make sense?
> 
> That said, I would like down the line to upgrade its HD (even though 
> I do not even have a HD braket for the poor thing!).  If I do so, 
> what would be the most painless way to move everybody to the new HD 
> so I can then boot from there?
>