From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Feb 2 3: 9:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from brea.mc.mpls.visi.com (brea.mc.mpls.visi.com [208.42.156.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 609ED37B440 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 03:09:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from sheol.localdomain (hawkeyd-fw.dsl.visi.com [208.42.101.193]) by brea.mc.mpls.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3351E2DDF1C for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 05:09:39 -0600 (CST) Received: (from hawkeyd@localhost) by sheol.localdomain (8.11.1/8.11.1) id g12B9cM09217 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 05:09:38 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from hawkeyd) Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 05:09:38 -0600 From: D J Hawkey Jr To: stable at FreeBSD Subject: Two FBSD slices on one disk - losing mountpoints? Message-ID: <20020202050938.A9135@sheol.localdomain> Reply-To: hawkeyd@visi.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 After reading the 4.5 Handbook, and searching with Google and FBSD's own engines, I cannot find anything to soothe my apprehension about what I see: I have FBSD on ad0s2. I want FBSD 4.5-REL on ad0s1. 'fdisk' is no problem, and neither is 'disklabel', EXCEPT that as I create the [FBSD] partitions in ad0s1, the mountpoints in the existing ad0s2 disappear, and 'disklabel' tells me I already have such-and-such mountpoint when I try to re-mount the partitions in ad0s2. I'm talking about using 'sysinstall' on a booted 4.5-REL install CD, not the command-line 'disklabel'. My question is: By creating new partitions in ad0s1, am I really losing the existing mountpoints in ad0s2? If so, how do I restore 'em? Or am I missing something fundamental here? I know two FBSDs can exist on one drive. Am I worrying about nothing? I cannot risk losing the FBSD on ad0s2. TIA, Dave PS, I posted this yesterday on questions@, but got no takers, and I'm rather hard-pressed for time. Bad form, I know, sorry. -- ______________________ ______________________ \__________________ \ D. J. HAWKEY JR. / __________________/ \________________/\ hawkeyd@visi.com /\________________/ http://www.visi.com/~hawkeyd/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message