From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 14 21:11:33 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 2D7EA16A41A for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 21:11:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeff.hamann@forestinformatics.com) Received: from bobby.forestinformatics.com (cvo-cr1-200-239.peak.org [69.59.200.239]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4149243D45 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 21:11:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jeff.hamann@forestinformatics.com) Received: from mothra (mothra.forestinformatics.com [192.168.0.10]) by bobby.forestinformatics.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id k5EL6uc3068568 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:07:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeff.hamann@forestinformatics.com) Message-ID: <004e01c68ff7$10011bc0$0a00a8c0@mothra> From: "Jeff D. Hamann" To: Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:10:52 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 Subject: adding an "old' disk as a new mount point? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 21:11:33 -0000 I'm sure this is a very RTFM question, but I'm getting a little lost in the minutae about just exactly what I'm looking for. I've got an "old" freebsd 4.4 system (single hard disk) and a new server with 6.0 installed. The new system is working just fine and I would like to install the disk from the old server as a data disk in the new machine for a little while until I can kick it loose and use it for new data. What am I looking for becuase each time I try to search the internet for the question, i get results about adding brand new disks, adding swap space or converting filesystems... I'm thinking I can simply plug in the older drive, find out what partition it's been named and then count it like I would any other mount point, provided I create the infrustructure to do that (creat mount point, fstab, etc.) Is it that simple, or should I be afaid, very afraid... Thanks, Jeff. -- Jeff D. Hamann Forest Informatics, Inc.