Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 00:22:58 +1030 From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: "Alex Teslik" <alex@acatysmoof.com>, "List freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: switching ide disk, change disklabel? Message-ID: <200412040022.58811.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <20041202173136.M92295@acatysmoof.com> References: <20041202080312.M94632@acatysmoof.com> <200412022253.24734.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> <20041202173136.M92295@acatysmoof.com>
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On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 04:07 am, Alex Teslik wrote: > > 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. > OK > 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? > Right Malcolm
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