Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 10:14:04 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: Ewald Jenisch <a@jenisch.at>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: /home on a separate slice on cloned system Message-ID: <42FA35DC.5060502@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050810170409.GA5560@aurora.oekb.co.at> References: <20050810170409.GA5560@aurora.oekb.co.at>
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Ewald Jenisch wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm currently in the process of cloning
>FreeBSD-installations. Machines are (almost) identical - only HD-sizes
>are different.
>
>So I installed the "master"-system as follows:
>
>I set up two slices on the HD. The first slice contains /, swap, /var,
>/tmp, and /usr; the second slice only contains /home. During
>installation I installed the FreeBSD boot manager. Everything's
>running perfect on the master machine (besides the small issue that
>the FreeBSD boot manager lets me choose between two (!) installations
>- I assume this comes because I've got two slices).
>
>The next step was cloning: On the target machine ("slave") I set up
>two FreeBSD partitions (i.e. "slices" in BSD-lingo: the first one
>exactly equal to the first slice on the master machine, the second one
>a little smaller. The cloning process itself went OK without problems
>- I cloned the first slice from the master- to the slave-machine.
>
>After copying over the data I only had to boot with the FreeBSD
>Install-CD on the slave-system one time in order to write the boot
>manager and the machine booted without problems.
>
>Now for the problem: Upon boot the slave machine says it can't find
>the /home-partition, i.e. hda2d, and goes into single-user mode. Sure
>enough once I comment out the respective entry in /etc/fstab the box
>runs without problems.
>
>In order to get /dev/hda2d mounted as root I've already tried writing
>the partition table (sysinstall - Index - Partition - "w") and I've
>also labelled the disk (Sysinstall - Index - Label) but that didn't
>solve my problem either.
>
>
>So my question: How do I prepare the second slice /dev/hda2d on the
>slave machine in order to get mounted as /home?
>
>Thanks much in advance for any clue,
>-ewald
>
>
Where exactly is the /home directory you want to mount on your slave
machine? If it's located on your 'master' machine, you can use NFS to
share the directory and just create a reference in fstab to the location
of the NFS mounted drive on your 'slave' machine.
-Garrett
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