From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 14 21:35:40 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 F412416A479 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 21:35:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (dsl081-142-072.chi1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.142.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D73743D4C for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 21:35:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p17.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.6/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k5ELZ3Go098903; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 16:35:03 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20060614163311.026ae618@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 16:34:55 -0500 To: "Jeff D. Hamann" , From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <004e01c68ff7$10011bc0$0a00a8c0@mothra> References: <004e01c68ff7$10011bc0$0a00a8c0@mothra> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: 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 21:35:40 -0000 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. > > >-- >Jeff D. Hamann >Forest Informatics, Inc. > > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >-- >This message has been scanned for viruses and >dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >believed to be clean. >MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.