Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 13:19:36 -0500 From: "Edwin L. Culp W." <edwinlculp@gmail.com> To: Daniel Nebdal <dnebdal@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I am very confused and would appreciate some help on device renameing or on renumbering on current fstab. Message-ID: <BANLkTin7vCM=Lr0%2B5H_c5bFOpDZ6kP=s8w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTin9JTgOyH5MNz%2Bzk=guFHptX87bNw@mail.gmail.com> References: <BANLkTi=C9BZLn2J7=t1_dq1cwgcRa0JWNA@mail.gmail.com> <201105030759.09518.jhb@freebsd.org> <BANLkTinMWO5uhoiYOHYJ_1C8dnXFDbqL%2BQ@mail.gmail.com> <BANLkTin9JTgOyH5MNz%2Bzk=guFHptX87bNw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Daniel Nebdal <dnebdal@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Thanks, John. =A0I was afraid that was the answer. Now, II'm really >> confused. =A0I'm guessing that the partitions will notl need to be shown >> in fstab (ada0s1a). =A0 What little mind I have left is a blank, >> /dev/ad4s1g will be automatically be detected. =A0Is that correct? >> >> What will I do with my second disk /dev/ad0s1a that is already zero? >> >> I apologize but I have really confused myself. =A0I've filled my glass >> with too much water and I'm drowning. >> >> Thanks for everyone's patience. >> >> ed >> >> P.S. =A0If I am not the only idiot, maybe a couple of lines as an >> example could go into UPDATING. > > If I have understood ada correct, the "first" disk (lowest current > number) is ada0, the next ada1, and so on. If you have ad0 and ad4, > they will be ad0=3Dada0, and ad4=3Dada1 . It doesn't affect anything > _except_ the disk names, so ad4s1f =3D ada1s1f and so on. You'll have to > change most of your fstab, basically s/ad0/ada0/g and s/ad4/ada1/g . > > That said, my one ad to ada transition was on a ZFS-only system, which > took the fstab editing out of it. I might be horribly wrong in some or > all of the above. Thanks, Daniel. Your explanation makes sense to me and to eleminate problems with ad0, it is an old disk, that I will bring up later and just change ad4 to ada0 and ad4s1g to ada0s1g, etc. and reboot it again early tomorrow morning about 5 am CDT and will post a working fstab, if I manage to get it to work. Thanks again, ed > > -- > Daniel Nebdal >
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