From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 24 04:09:26 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FC7A16A4CE for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 04:09:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp11.wanadoo.fr (smtp11.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2467043D49 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 04:09:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf1103.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 041FD1C0008D for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 05:09:25 +0100 (CET) Received: from pix.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-111-2-1-3.w81-50.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.50.80.3]) by mwinf1103.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id D74641C00087 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 05:09:24 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20050324040924881.D74641C00087@mwinf1103.wanadoo.fr Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 05:09:24 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1735169762.20050324050924@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: What's an easy way to replace a drive? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 04:09:26 -0000 The continuing problems I'm having with my SATA drives seem to center on only one of the two drives, /dev/ad10, and since both drives are identical (Western Digital WD1200JD 120-GB SATA drives), this is a good indicator that the drive itself might be failing. So I've decided to spend $83 and buy a replacement drive to see if that fixes the problem. Now, what's the easiest way to replace the drive? The drive I want to replace contains only /var and /tmp. Are these mounted in single-user mode? I was thinking perhaps I can just replace the drive, set up identical slices on the new drive, then restore /var and /tmp from the latest backup. Can I restore from tape in single-user mode? I don't have any extra connectors to which I can attach this drive without removing one of the other drives, so I'm looking for a way to fix it up by just removing the old drive and putting in the new one, without the need to have both old and new drives online at the same time. -- Anthony