From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 2 17:37:01 2004 Return-Path: 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 A86BA16A4CE for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 17:37:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gouda.acatysmoof.com (adsl-64-170-164-211.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.170.164.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6417B43D2D for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 17:37:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from SRS0=xavwKzqv=OS=acatysmoof.com=alex@acatysmoof.com) Received: from www.acatysmoof.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) iB2Hb0AT049844; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 09:37:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alex@acatysmoof.com) From: "Alex Teslik" To: Malcolm Kay , "List freebsd-questions" Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 09:37:00 -0800 Message-Id: <20041202173136.M92295@acatysmoof.com> In-Reply-To: <200412022253.24734.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> References: <20041202080312.M94632@acatysmoof.com> <200412022253.24734.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> X-Mailer: Open WebMail 2.41 20041031 X-OriginatingIP: 64.170.164.211 (alex) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version 0.70, clamav-milter version 0.70j X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Scanned-By: milter-spamc/0.17.257 (gouda.acatysmoof.com [64.170.164.211]); Thu, 02 Dec 2004 09:37:00 -0800 X-Spam-Status: NO, hits=1.90 required=7.00 X-Spam-Level: * Subject: Re: switching ide disk, change disklabel? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 17:37:01 -0000 > If you mean to move the disk containing ads1s1e from primary slave to the > primary master then the partition will automatically become ad0s1e. Great. That answers my question exactly. > > But how are the other partitions in your system organised? Are you currently > using ad0s1a, ad0s1b etc.? Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a 97M 62M 27M 70% / /dev/da0s1e 7.7G 6.2G 900M 88% /usr /dev/ad0s1e 72G 66G 772M 99% /home procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc So I'm booting off of a SCSI disk da0. I want to replace ad0s1e with the new 300GB monster. > These will move with the disk. If you are physically > swapping the disk connections these will become ad1s1a, ad1s1b etc. which will > be a problem. You'll need to fix /etc/fstab and arrange for a booting MBR on > the new disk and arrange for the boot sequence to find your / partition. But not in my case since this disk is just storage I think, right. Actually, when I run the disklabel do I need to use -B at all. I don't need a bootstrap since its not a boot disk, right? Thanks, Alex