From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 7 10:20:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA02191 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 10:20:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (s205m64.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA02175 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 10:20:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id KAA12434; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 10:18:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 10:18:12 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199810071718.KAA12434@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: data@dreamhaven.net, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Subject: Re: Swapping out root partition Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:17:15 -0700 (PDT) >From: Doug White >> I need to swap out the drive on my FreeBSD system that contains the root >> partition. Is there a recommended procedure for doing this, so I don't >> screw up my machine? >Copying the root partition is the same as copying any other partition, >just make sure /etc/fstab is accurate. Well, except that when I did this, I tried using /stand/sysinstall's front end to the disklabel/newfs/mount programs, and found it a bit odd that it used slice "e" for what was to be the new root filesystem.... Ended up going in with disklabel -e to change things around to the way I wanted them afterward.... david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message