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Old 2nd February 2009
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If I do a minimal FreeBSD install on the new box and partition the slice and make filesystems, and then rsync my whole existing install on top of the new one will this work?
Yes, if you install rsync & whatnot as necessary for the operation. The built in dump and restore programs should also be usable for that purpose.

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Is there a better way to do this?
If the disks are the same size, I would probably use a live cd, dd, ssh, and gzip out of laziness; and skip the install disk all together.

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Also, I have 500G to allocate to FreeBSD and the disklabel doesn't allow for many partitions. How would you allocate this much space for a general desktop box for development and a web server?
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