From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 24 21:45:24 2002 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 6B0E837B400 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 21:45:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03F5A43E42 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 21:45:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C1EE29391 for ; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 00:45:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 00:45:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: FreeBSD LIST Subject: gpart ; /dev/ad0 /dev/ad1 Message-ID: <20020825003448.C70465-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG gpart saves the day! I used it with no backup and restored the partition table on my 40gb HDD. Just now I did a huge `mv` of /dev/ad1 (8.4gb FreeBSD 4.6 HDD) to a mounted directory on my current /dev/ad0 (40gb HDD FreeBSD 4.5), namely the fourth partition, mounted as /home. (#1 = msdos, #2 = fbsd 4.5, #3 = procfs) I did so after mv'ing all data on /home to my home directory first. Then after a reboot I tried "F4" to boot into FreeBSD 4.6 to no avail. Is there a way to safely "weave" the unused fbsd 4.6 OS and files in with the fbsd 4.5 in use right now? The goal is to unify all my data (msdos, fbsd 4.5, and fbsd 4.6) into one drive and OS (4.6 since that's the only one for which XF 4.2.0 works) and hence, simplify my computing existence. Once I have identified which data to save, I will be able to free up masses of space since a lot of MSDOS and FreeBSD 4.6 are executables and OS files. Any summary advice on how to proceed? PS - If proceeding involves upgrading my Fbsd 4.5 to 4.6, can someone give me the handbook URL which best explains how to do this? Thanks, -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message