From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 20 3:51:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk (dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk [194.200.93.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2E9A37B408 for ; Mon, 20 May 2002 03:51:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pfrench by mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk with local (Exim 3.34 #1) id 179kks-0008oH-00 for stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 20 May 2002 11:51:06 +0100 To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: odd question about slices Message-Id: From: Pete French Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 11:51:06 +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG We had a machine here which was, for historical reasons, booting off drive 2 rather than its normal boot drive. As its a Compaq I decided one day to swapthe drives round so that it bootd in the normal way. So,I ussed to have an /etc/fstab that looked like this: /dev/da1s2a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/da1s2b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/da1s2e /var ufs rw 2 2 /dev/da1s2f /usr ufs rw 2 2 /dev/da0s1e /usr/local ufs rw 2 2 And I changed it to: /dev/da0s2a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/da0s2b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/da0s2e /var ufs rw 2 2 /dev/da0s2f /usr ufs rw 2 2 /dev/da1s1e /usr/local ufs rw 2 2 This does not work. In order to get it to work I have to remove the slices from the fstab so that it looks like this: /dev/da0a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/da0b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/da0e /var ufs rw 2 2 /dev/da0f /usr ufs rw 2 2 /dev/da1s1e /usr/local ufs rw 2 2 Can anyone explain this behaviour to me ? It seems to work O.K., but I feel sightly uneasy as the partitioning information sseems to act differently depending on whether the drive is SCSI ID 0 or 1 ! Which doesnt seem right to me somehow. I thought I had a good grip on how this worked, maybe not.... (system is running STABLE-RC2) -pcf. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message