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Date:      Tue, 3 May 2011 15:54:42 +0200
From:      Daniel Nebdal <dnebdal@gmail.com>
To:        "Edwin L. Culp W." <edwinlculp@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: I am very confused and would appreciate some help on device renameing or on renumbering on current fstab.
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> Thanks, John. =A0I was afraid that was the answer. Now, II'm really
> confused. =A0I'm guessing that the partitions will notl need to be shown
> in fstab (ada0s1a). =A0 What little mind I have left is a blank,
> /dev/ad4s1g will be automatically be detected. =A0Is that correct?
>
> What will I do with my second disk /dev/ad0s1a that is already zero?
>
> I apologize but I have really confused myself. =A0I've filled my glass
> with too much water and I'm drowning.
>
> Thanks for everyone's patience.
>
> ed
>
> P.S. =A0If I am not the only idiot, maybe a couple of lines as an
> example could go into UPDATING.

If I have understood ada correct, the "first" disk (lowest current
number) is ada0, the next ada1, and so on. If you have ad0 and ad4,
they will be ad0=3Dada0, and ad4=3Dada1 . It doesn't affect anything
_except_ the disk names, so ad4s1f =3D ada1s1f and so on. You'll have to
change most of your fstab, basically s/ad0/ada0/g and s/ad4/ada1/g .

That said, my one ad to ada transition was on a ZFS-only system, which
took the fstab editing out of it. I might be horribly wrong in some or
all of the above.

--=20
Daniel Nebdal



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