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Cc: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Cloning to different disks.
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> What is the easiest way to make sure the new disk is bootable.

bsdlabel -B disk (or disks1 and fdisk -B disk if you use MBR partitions at 
all).

> Also, it just occured to me....we have a few different versions of SCSI 
> drives SCSI-2 SAS etc.

this is no difference

>
> Can I assume the the da driver will handle all these OK...ie. should not see 
> any fstab problems?

just put right device names in fstab. nothing more