From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 19 14:58:58 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 19C0F16A4CE for ; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 14:58:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B88A043D1F for ; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 14:58:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Sat, 19 Mar 2005 09:02:11 -0600 Message-ID: <423C3E2A.8040406@daleco.biz> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 08:58:50 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jrrelay@juno.com References: <20050318.202259.-854787.0.jrrelay@juno.com> In-Reply-To: <20050318.202259.-854787.0.jrrelay@juno.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Mar 2005 15:02:16.0899 (UTC) FILETIME=[A40C7930:01C52C94] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 14:58:58 -0000 jrrelay@juno.com wrote: >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 > > Well, a reinstall would certainly work, but it's so "Windozy" ;-) What does /etc/fstab look like now? And maybe what does `mount` say? One thing is certain .... the new drive would need the FreeBSD MBR (or another boot loader) at the very least; you didn't mention where you were booting from, (but I assume from the new disk?) Worst case scenario: you get to learn a lot about the bootstrap process. IIRC, that's currently chapter 12 in the Handbook (www.freebsd.org/handbook). Good advice: backup personal data, regardless of what you choose to do.... Sorry I can't give you more help, but as a relative newb myself, I'll have to leave the real answers to the "real men" out there. Kevin Kinsey