From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 4 13:37:54 2003 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 3012A37B405 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 13:37:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from mgr1.xmission.com (mgr1.xmission.com [198.60.22.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E65E743F85 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 13:37:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chad@xmission.com) Received: from mail by mgr1.xmission.com with spam-scanned (Exim 3.35 #1) id 18qK4w-0007tC-01 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2003 14:36:02 -0700 Received: from [198.60.22.20] (helo=xmission.xmission.com) by mgr1.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 18qK2V-0006zm-01; Tue, 04 Mar 2003 14:33:31 -0700 Received: from chad by xmission.xmission.com with local (Exim 3.16 #3) id 18qK2V-0005lp-00; Tue, 04 Mar 2003 14:33:31 -0700 Subject: partition is "e" should be "a" -- how to fix? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:33:31 -0700 (MST) Cc: chad@pengar.com Reply-To: chad@shire.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL5] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Chad Leigh X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.8 required=8.0 tests=SPAM_PHRASE_00_01 version=2.43 X-Spam-Level: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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