bsdlabel and moving to a bigger drive
Alex Zbyslaw
xfb52 at dial.pipex.com
Mon Jul 25 22:40:46 GMT 2005
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.
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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
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