From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 26 21:55:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mostgraveconcern.com (mostgraveconcern.com [216.82.145.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00D7C37B403 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 21:55:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Received: from dan (dan.mostgraveconcern.com [10.20.155.5]) by mostgraveconcern.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with SMTP id f6R4tkv21824; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 21:55:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Message-ID: <00a201c11658$661e9d20$059b140a@dan> From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "User & Ian Patrick Thomas" , "Caleb Walker" Cc: References: <01072619054800.17036@butthead.cwalk.org> <20010726224405.A4568@localhost> Subject: Re: Installing a new Hard Drive to add space Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 21:55:46 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > What is going to be the best way to add a new hard drive after I have a > > working system up and running? Any good reading material or any kind of help > > would be appreciated. > > http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/2disk.html Hi, guys. I just looked over that Cheat Sheet (which I wrote almost 2 years ago) and immediately noticed a few items to keep in mind: 1. The 'wd' and 'wdc' devices should now be 'ad' and 'ata', as the old 'western digital' drive code was replaced by 'AT-Attachment' code in FreeBSD 4. Keep this in mind when adding the new drive to your kernel config. 2. Although I only moved /var at the time, the procedure *should* work for the whole /usr tree, if you want to move the whole thing... 3. That cheat sheet is really old, so make sure you have a current backup of anything you want to save, just in case! If you try this method, please let me know how it works out (and what you actually had to do to be successful), and I'll update that cheat sheet accordingly. Thanks, --Dan -- Dan O'Connor On Matters of Most Grave Concern http://www.mostgraveconcern.com FreeBSD Cheat Sheets http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message