[SunHELP] Moving data from a small disk to a larger disk

[Suraj Talreja]

Hi,
As far as i see there are 2 possible options:
1. Connect the new HDD, format and partition it as per ur requirement and then
add these new partitions to the existing HDD using growfs or Solstice.

OR

2. Copy the data (non-root)on the exisiting HDD to the new HDD using cpio,dd
or ufsdump.
Backup root (in single-user mode) on a tape-media and then restore it to the
new HDD.
I have apprehensions in using dd,cpio for the root file-system as it may not
necessarily copy the  VTOC at sector 0 of the HDD to the new HDD.

Regards,

Suraj.

-----Original Message-----
From: Nguyen, David M [mailto:david.m.nguyen at xo.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 4:32 AM
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: [SunHELP] Moving data from a small disk to a larger disk


I maintain a webser running on solaris8 sun netrat1.  The disk is
getting full so I need to buy a larger disk, the question I have is how
do I transfer old data on current disk to a new larger disk?

Thanks,
David
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