Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 15:22:42 -0800 From: "Chris Smith" <chrissmith@mgci.com> To: "freebsd" <freebsd@whoowl.com> Cc: "Freebsd Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Setting Up new disk the hardway Message-ID: <013401c076a5$3cdbe7e0$0c00a8c0@amgroupadmin.com> References: <20010103184312.41066.qmail@vanbo.whoowl.com>
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Great cheat sheet here, I just used it myself: http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/admin.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK Chris Smith _________________ IT Department American Group Administrators First National Administrators ----- Original Message ----- From: "freebsd" <freebsd@whoowl.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 10:43 AM Subject: Setting Up new disk the hardway > > Ok, so I have been using freebsd on my servers for my company and at my > home for around 6 months. I have been able to figure out most things from > the man pages, handbook, and google. > > What I am trying to do seems simple enough but I am missing something. I > want to move my entire drives contents to another drive so that I can take > the old drive out for a different machine. Seems simple enough, so I came > up with this plan. > > 1) setup the new drive > 2) drop to single mode > 3) mount each partition on new drive to /mnt > 4) dump coresponding partion into restore via a pipe making sure it's in > /mnt > 5) Wash, rinse, repeat for other partions > 6) halt, and remove old drive, pray it boots. > > So far, after about an hour playing with it, I can't even get past step > one. I guess I am trying to make it hard, but I am trying to learn, so I > didn't want to use sysinstall, and have been trying the steps listed in the > handbook. Problem is I think the handbook may have some typos in it, as > there seems to be some difference in order of steps listed there... > > From http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/disks-adding.html: > > For slices > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rda1 bs=1k count=1 > # fdisk -BI da1 #Initialize your new disk > # disklabel -B -w -r da1s1 auto #Label it. > # disklabel -e da1s1 > # mkdir -p /1 > # newfs /dev/da1s1e # Repeat this for every partition you created. > > For dedicated > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rda1 bs=1k count=1 > # disklabel -Brw da1 auto > # disklabel -e da1 # create the `e' partition > # newfs -d0 /dev/rda1e > # mkdir -p /1 > > So here are my questions: > 1) Why the copy 1024 null to /dev/rda1? The example is working on da1... > 2) Why does mkdir -p /1 happen before newfs on slices but the other way on > dedicated? > 3) what am I suppose to change (in vi) when I type disklabel -e da1? > 4) Lastly, why when I try this does it give me the error "insufficent > space"? > > Thanks in advance, > John > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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