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From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com>
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Subject: Re: bsdlabel and moving to a bigger drive
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Omar Thameen wrote:

>I had sysinstall create all the filesystems on /mnt so I could do
>the dump/restore.  Because there was no / partition (it was "/mnt"
>on the new drive), sysinstall did not create an ad2s1a partition.
>The / partition on the new drive is thus ad2s1d.
>
>  
>
This is easy, if a little tedious, to fix at sysinstall time.

Create the new / partition and call it / (NOT /mnt).  It will be e.g. ad0s1a

Then change the mount point to /mnt and turn off softupdates.  The 
partition will remain a.

--Alex