Date: 19 Jan 1997 17:24:25 -0500 From: Jay Sachs <sachs@interactive.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: moved hd from 2 to 0; /etc/fstab & partition names Message-ID: <87d8v1s3qd.fsf@luddite.org>
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I was running FreeBSD off of my third IDE hd, i.e. wd2. /etc/fstab looked like this: /dev/wd2s2b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/wd2a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/wd2s2f /usr ufs rw 1 1 /dev/wd2s2e /var ufs rw 1 1 proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 hd 1 died, so I switched stuff around so that the FreeBSD disk is now disk 0. I knew I'd have to adjust /etc/fstab after that. So I booted up w/ the fixit disk, and adjust fstab to look like this: /dev/wd0s2b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/wd0a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/wd0s2f /usr ufs rw 1 1 /dev/wd0s2e /var ufs rw 1 1 proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 Well, turns out there's no devices named wd0s2b, wd0s2f, wd0s2e. Not sure what to do, and noticing there were devices wd0b, wd0e, wd0f, I switched fstab to be: /dev/wd0b none swap sw - - /dev/wd0a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/wd0f /usr ufs rw 1 1 /dev/wd0e /var ufs rw 1 1 proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 Things seem to be working fine. I just wonder if I'm asking for trouble in the future (if so, what do I do to get the partition names in /dev?), or if having different names matters at all. If it makes any difference, there is a DOS FAT partition in front of the UFS partition. -jay
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