From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 19 15:46:17 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 7477C16A4CE for ; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 15:46:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03C5643D2D for ; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 15:46:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.13.3/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j2JFkGNv040907; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 08:46:16 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.13.3/8.13.1/Submit) with ESMTP id j2JFkFj1040904; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 08:46:16 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 08:46:15 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: jrrelay@juno.com In-Reply-To: <20050318.202259.-854787.0.jrrelay@juno.com> Message-ID: <20050319080539.I32774@wonkity.com> References: <20050318.202259.-854787.0.jrrelay@juno.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.6 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Sat, 19 Mar 2005 08:46:16 -0700 (MST) 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 15:46:17 -0000 On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 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? Definitely change ad3 to ad0 in fstab before you shut down and move the drive. Kevin's right in suggesting you may need to add an MBR or boot loader. See the man pages for boot0cfg for the menu loader, or fdisk for the plain, non-menu-just-boot-now version. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA