From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 28 11:38:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA13932 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 11:38:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from peeper.jackson.org ([208.128.8.145]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA13927 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 11:38:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (from tom@localhost) by peeper.jackson.org (8.8.5/8.7.3) id NAA01161; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 13:34:53 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199702281934.NAA01161@peeper.jackson.org> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 13:34:52 -0600 From: tom@peeper.jackson.org (Tom Jackson) To: ben@narcissus.ml.org (Snob Art Genre) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mount query References: <199702280549.XAA00400@peeper.jackson.org> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60e-PL0 Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: toj@gorilla.net In-Reply-To: ; from Snob Art Genre on Feb 27, 1997 22:19:34 -0800 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Snob Art Genre writes: > On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Tom Jackson wrote: > > > > > Hi'all > > > > I don't remember anyone ever asking this before, but who knows. > > Two situations: one, you leave your cdrom or removable media out > > when you boot up. You want to use it later on without rebooting. > > Is this possible? > > Absolutely. I boot with an audio CD in the drive all the time. It's only > during installation that this is an issue. your absolutely correct, apparently cd9660 fs can handle media of varying size. > > > two, you bootup with one size removable media ( its usable). Later > > on you want to change the size of the removable media. Is this > > possible, without rebooting? I really hope it is, but am afraid it > > isn't. > > I don't know, but I'd be *very* surprised if you had to reboot. Have you > tried it? > this is my main interest. The removable media is syquest cartridges of 135 and 230 mb size. I upgraded to the ezflyer but have a stack of 135 mb carts from the ez135. The problem seems to be the fact freebsd considers the syquest a hard disk (which *is* good for performance) but will not let me change the incore configuration of the carts. Was hoping there was a Magic way to change the incore config, like re-probe the drive without rebooting. thanks anyhow > > Hate to ruin my uptime stats. Anybody know? > > Ben > > "You have your mind on computers, it seems." > -- Tom Jackson Powered by FreeBSD toj@gorilla.net http://www.freebsd.org tjackson@tulsix.utulsa.edu "Out in the Ozone Again"