Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 18:54:24 -0800 From: "Dan O'Connor" <dan@jgl.reno.nv.us> To: "Cambria, Mike" <mcambria@lucent.com>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Moving / filesystem to new disk Message-ID: <012d01bf565f$0542a9c0$0200000a@danco.home>
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>Santa brought me a new (SCSI) disk and I want to move all of my FreeBSD >partitions still on EIDE to it. Everything went fine using >/stand/sysinstall to create and label the new partitions, mount them as >/mnt1 /mnt2 etc. and the files were copied with tar. The only filesystem I >have not tried to move yet is / > >Using /stand/sysinstall, each time I mount the new filesystem (vs. swap), >the letter assigned is 'e' and not 'a'. Rather than guess, I figured I ask >the list what the proper thing to do regarding moving the root filesystem >is. I had the same problem when I went to a larger IDE drive. I found that if you initially tell the Disklabel Editor (run from sysinstall) that your first partition is "/", it will create an "a" partition. You can then rename it to "/mnt" (before writing the configuration), and then create swap and whatever other partitions you want. I don't know about IDE -> SCSI, but with IDE -> IDE, all I had to do was tar-over the filesystems, remove the old drive, change the drive jumper from slave to master, and the new disk booted without any trouble. Needless to say, coming over from the Windoze camp, I was most pleasantly surprised!!! --Dan ** The thing I like most about Windows 98 is... ** You can download FreeBSD with it! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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