Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:33:31 -0700 (MST) From: Chad Leigh <chad@xmission.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: chad@pengar.com Subject: partition is "e" should be "a" -- how to fix? Message-ID: <E18qK2V-0005lp-00@xmission.xmission.com>
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Hi I have sent this three or four times already in the last 30 hours and never seen it show up in the list... I am trying sending from a different account. Over the weekend, I upgraded my HW on my server, replacing all disks with new ones. In order to do this, I mounted the new disks, used sysinstall to partition and label the new partitions, and then I used dump/restore to move all the old partitions files and data to the new partitions. I then took the old drives off, made appropriate fstab changes as needed, and rebooted. Then I noticed a problem. My "root" partition was now da0s1e instead of da0s1a . I can boot the machine if I manually enter the different partition letter into the bootloader, but the bootloader doesn't find its meta data settings and the machine won't boot unattended. How do I fix this? How do I change the root partition from using "e" to "a"? I would think I could use disklabel to map the "a" partition to the same range of blocks as the "e" partition, remake the special dev files, and be done with it. However, I am wanting some second opinions on this, and since I am not a disklabel guru, some guidance on how to use disklabel without screwing up my system would be appreciated. I am studying disklabel man pages, but I don't want to screw up my running system and would appreciate a small how-to explanation from someone who IS a disklabel guru :-) Thanks Chad To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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