Re: [9fans] copying fossil filesystem to a bigger disk



With Venti, you could use venti/rdarena to export arenas from the
old Venti, then import them to the new Venti with venti/wrarena.
Finally, format the Fossil partition from the last Fossil score.

Honestly I would advise against this, I did it but it was really
quite painful. When I upgraded my other (work) machine I just copied
the old disk to a new partition of the same size and added another
partition/arena and told venti about it.

I rebuilt the indices and fossil from the arenas and was good to go in
a couple of hours.

Much easier/quicker.

-Steve

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