Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 14:37:18 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1049488639.1fe3a5@mired.org> To: "kirt" <krs@gaultopia.org> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: switching IDE controllers Message-ID: <16007.21886.365006.857990@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <000701c2f6f5$17434460$0a00000a@noodlexp> References: <000701c2f6f5$17434460$0a00000a@noodlexp>
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In <000701c2f6f5$17434460$0a00000a@noodlexp>, kirt <krs@gaultopia.org> typed: > i've checked the handbook, man pages, web, etc. for info regarding > this and i'm still not entirely sure as to how i should go about it. Yes you are. > i want to take ad4, which is where FreeBSD is installed and all of my > main partitions are (/ , /var , /tmp , /usr , and the swap), and move > it to the on-board controller. the other 3 drives are nothing but > data for samba shares. > > i've gathered that i will have to change the mount points in > /etc/fstab to reflect the new drive location (ad0), but past that i > am unsure as to what all needs to be done to have the machine boot > correctly. That should do it. You may have to tweak the BIOS boot settings so it boots from the new ad0. I don't have the hardware you do, so I can't check that. While you're adding new drives, I'd recommend adding a second swap partition. Letting the kernel interleave paging across two drives improves paging performance. If you're not paging, it doesn't matter. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information.
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