From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 3 9:22:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mtiwmhc23.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc23.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AEFF37B718 for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2001 09:22:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phase3@worldnet.att.net) Received: from sisyphus2 ([12.72.161.179]) by mtiwmhc23.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with SMTP id <20010303172214.XHRN12661.mtiwmhc23.worldnet.att.net@sisyphus2>; Sat, 3 Mar 2001 17:22:14 +0000 Message-ID: <058401c0a406$9f13ae00$4fa0480c@sisyphus2> Reply-To: "3phase" From: "3phase" To: "richard childers" , "Christopher Farley" Cc: References: <20010301112155.A5003@northernbrewer.com> <3AA01349.AE0F5D2B@pacbell.net> Subject: Re: Hot swap IDE device? Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 23:44:51 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "richard childers" To: "Christopher Farley" Cc: Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 01:40 PM Subject: Re: Hot swap IDE device? > I believe this would be possible provided that all filesystem(s) > associated with that disk had been explicitly unmounted. <> > I'm not sure what would happen when the kernel encountered a > different drive geometry, though, or if it would be able to become > aware of it without a reboot, should you want to use this single > bay for multiple devices (as your question suggests). <> Would disklabel be able to do that or have I mis-read another man page? It says it can update the kernel but I have not actually tried it. Is it possible to keep/make a few disk labels as files, load them for the appropriate drive, and then mount the filesystem? Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message