Re: move FreeBSD installation to a different disk partition on same Laptop

From: Maxim V Filimonov <che_at_bein.link>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2023 09:12:09 UTC
Hi,

You can use dump and restore for UFS file systems.

On 21.12.2023 12:25, Amr Osman wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have freebsd 14 install on UFS partition on  256 GB GPT disk and I want to move it to a 128 GB UFS partition on another 512GB GPT disk that contains windows 11 and Fedora 39 , I have cloned my system using ‘ dump | restore ‘ but I can’t find a way to make freeBSD boot-loader show the cloned system to boot into it as I have the 2 disks on my laptop and I want to make the 256 disk for data only and the other for multi booting using rEFInd
> any help is appreciated
> how to create a boot entry for the cloned system?
>
> My Disk structure
>
> ada0
> msdos 300MB EFI with rEFInd
> UFS 256 GB FREEBSD 14 <— current system
>
> ada1
> 500GB freeSpace (I deleted that due to bug on windows installer that prevented installation to continue due to multiple EFI present on my laptop)
> ada1p2 150 GB NTFS WINDOWS 11
> ada1p3 128 GB EXT4 Fedora Linux
> ada1p4 100 GB exFat shared Data
> ada1p5 100 GB UFS <—- target for clone
>
>
> Thanks
> amr

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wbr, Maxim Filimonov <che@bein.link>