Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 16:34:55 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: "Jeff D. Hamann" <jeff.hamann@forestinformatics.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: adding an "old' disk as a new mount point? Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20060614163311.026ae618@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <004e01c68ff7$10011bc0$0a00a8c0@mothra> References: <004e01c68ff7$10011bc0$0a00a8c0@mothra>
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You may want to repartition the disk and do a newfs to update the
filesystem, and be sure the whole disk is used.
-Derek
At 04:10 PM 6/14/2006, 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...
>
>Thanks,
>Jeff.
>
>
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>Jeff D. Hamann
>Forest Informatics, Inc.
>
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