From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 3 02:33:30 2005 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 D3E7316A4CE for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 02:33:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from zoot.lafn.org (zoot.lafn.ORG [206.117.18.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99D2A43D53 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 02:33:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Received: from [10.0.1.5] ([4.28.157.47]) (authenticated bits=0) by zoot.lafn.org (8.12.3p3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id j132XRYu070965 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 18:33:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <9067891c7d3ef2dc5269ac1990beeade@lafn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: f-questions List From: Doug Hardie Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 18:33:26 -0800 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/680/Sun Jan 23 15:16:15 2005 clamav-milter version 0.80j on zoot.lafn.org X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: Disk Label Problem 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, 03 Feb 2005 02:33:30 -0000 I have a system with two SCSI disks. da1 has a complete working system on it that I need to clone onto da0. The disks are different sizes. So I went to sysinstall and used 'disk label' to create the desired structure. Thats where the problems started. If I create the first partition and set the mount point to / and the second as a swap partition and the third to mount at /usr then when writing the changes there are a number of errors generated because it can't mount to those points - they are in use. So then I tried to use 'disk label' and create the structure using /mnt and /mnt1 (which do exist). That worked fine and did the newfs. However, it created partitions d and e rather than a and d. So I went back and reestablished the structure using / and /usr to set the partitions to a and d and then went back and changed the mount points to /mnt and /mnt1 before the write. However, this generated an error that it couldn't write label. Obviously I am doing something wrong since I have don this using sysinstall and completing the system installation from CD. However, in this case the machine is a long way away and the CD drive is empty.