From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 14 21:20:08 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 B8FAC16A479 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 21:20:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net [81.228.11.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B48BD43D6B for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 21:20:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (83.253.29.241) by pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.072.1) id 44892B960016B9BD for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 23:20:00 +0200 Received: (qmail 11398 invoked from network); 14 Jun 2006 23:19:59 +0200 Received: from owl.midgard.homeip.net (10.1.5.7) by falcon.midgard.homeip.net with SMTP; 14 Jun 2006 23:19:59 +0200 Received: (qmail 9286 invoked by uid 1001); 14 Jun 2006 23:19:59 +0200 Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 23:19:59 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: "Jeff D. Hamann" Message-ID: <20060614211959.GA9276@owl.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: "Jeff D. Hamann" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <004e01c68ff7$10011bc0$0a00a8c0@mothra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <004e01c68ff7$10011bc0$0a00a8c0@mothra> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 21:20:08 -0000 On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 02:10:52PM -0700, Jeff D. Hamann wrote: > 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... Yes, it should be that simple. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se