From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 19 02:26:02 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 061F916A4CE for ; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 02:26:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from m5.nyc.untd.com (m5.nyc.untd.com [64.136.22.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6984443D39 for ; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 02:26:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jrrelay@juno.com) Received: from m5.nyc.untd.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by m5.nyc.untd.com with SMTP id AABBDZDNAA47693S for (sender ); Fri, 18 Mar 2005 18:25:04 -0800 (PST) X-UNTD-OriginStamp: R9CnQVXkTy4RC5ELwduHuf4oOS5I1fkwk2WJ9NgCG2D9RQpjCC8LYw== Received: (from jrrelay@juno.com) by m5.nyc.untd.com (jqueuemail) id KNEY4R8E; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 18:25:01 PST To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 20:22:59 -0600 Message-ID: <20050318.202259.-854787.0.jrrelay@juno.com> X-Mailer: Juno 4.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 6 X-Juno-Att: 0 X-Juno-RefParts: 0 From: jrrelay@juno.com X-ContentStamp: 2:3:1746513563 Subject: do i need to reinstall 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: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 02:26:02 -0000 i recently bought a new and larger hard drive for my computer. i put it the machine as '/dev/ad3'. while educating myself about this new drive, i installed freebsd 5.3 on one of the slices. i am ready to eliminate the old 'ad0' and want to move the new drive so it will become '/dev/ad0'. will BSD operate in its new location without any changes to the configuration files? perhaps '/etc/fstab', and what else? or should i just reinstall freebsd after i have reconfigured the machine? jrrelay@juno.com