From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 3 18:19:37 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C70A01065678; Tue, 3 May 2011 18:19:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from edwinlculp@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vx0-f182.google.com (mail-vx0-f182.google.com [209.85.220.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 695958FC08; Tue, 3 May 2011 18:19:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vxc34 with SMTP id 34so399535vxc.13 for ; Tue, 03 May 2011 11:19:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=JaKjuuKdS/Npw9g4uBIpR/EttpDJTHLcE1bEqjCriPw=; b=DJOD3KSXt669NJjOGy5RlEL95FGDu7CAgUeO/LNXl2FUxkaqnuZtj5yoaJouaaVnUJ XkrneBTboCy4D3ake1So6tgu8mn/eBIXxfZn7yAw7cQefYt60HRVuEHkvI0dnTk8CRLQ LqWTn2Gp+rO8xVGAeDbKd4fG5+rVpx5HGA8Jw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=QembunRRu+5gXbdNnkRgFyeOw4b9dGErbtUnO2RiHoClKM7yK0hIGxC/Kjvy9K3dF2 VpDgziOIlGtCYyxgkZ1Czt40X10F7lbmqgfwMxIGtYWaIEQylfh/yslp6FjPvry3qKBN gNo7fQnGNvUe6o/X7lUr0dbN3Dmws02bG3q68= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.175.199 with SMTP id cc7mr177322vdc.197.1304446776676; Tue, 03 May 2011 11:19:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.107.5 with HTTP; Tue, 3 May 2011 11:19:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <201105030759.09518.jhb@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 13:19:36 -0500 Message-ID: From: "Edwin L. Culp W." To: Daniel Nebdal Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 18:19:37 -0000 On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Daniel Nebdal wrote: >> >> 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. Thanks, Daniel. Your explanation makes sense to me and to eleminate problems with ad0, it is an old disk, that I will bring up later and just change ad4 to ada0 and ad4s1g to ada0s1g, etc. and reboot it again early tomorrow morning about 5 am CDT and will post a working fstab, if I manage to get it to work. Thanks again, ed > > -- > Daniel Nebdal >