/home on a separate slice on cloned system

[Ewald Jenisch]

Hi,

I'm currently in the process of cloning
FreeBSD-installations. Machines are (almost) identical - only HD-sizes
are different.

So I installed the "master"-system as follows:

I set up two slices on the HD. The first slice contains /, swap, /var,
/tmp, and /usr; the second slice only contains /home. During
installation I installed the FreeBSD boot manager. Everything's
running perfect on the master machine (besides the small issue that
the FreeBSD boot manager lets me choose between two (!) installations
- I assume this comes because I've got two slices).

The next step was cloning: On the target machine ("slave") I set up
two FreeBSD partitions (i.e. "slices" in BSD-lingo: the first one
exactly equal to the first slice on the master machine, the second one
a little smaller. The cloning process itself went OK without problems
- I cloned the first slice from the master- to the slave-machine.

After copying over the data I only had to boot with the FreeBSD
Install-CD on the slave-system one time in order to write the boot
manager and the machine booted without problems.

Now for the problem: Upon boot the slave machine says it can't find
the /home-partition, i.e. hda2d, and goes into single-user mode. Sure
enough once I comment out the respective entry in /etc/fstab the box
runs without problems.

In order to get /dev/hda2d mounted as root I've already tried writing
the partition table (sysinstall - Index - Partition - "w") and I've
also labelled the disk (Sysinstall - Index - Label) but that didn't
solve my problem either.


So my question: How do I prepare the second slice /dev/hda2d on the
slave machine in order to get mounted as /home?

Thanks much in advance for any clue,
-ewald