Moving boot disk - does not seem easy?
james
james at mansionfamily.plus.com
Thu Sep 12 21:26:37 UTC 2019
I had thought that this would be straightforward but it seems not.
I have a freebsd 12 system, UFS boots /ada0p2. Mounts some ZFS
partitions and I'm away.
I add a new PCIe card with a SATA SSD, and it grabs ada0.
I want to move my boot to the SSD, not least because the boot priority
now favours it as ada0, and I had to manually boot ada1p2.
There's not much on ada1p2 now, but I want the new ada0p2 to be smaller,
so dd is not attractive.
What's the easiest way to set ata0 to be much like ada0p2 was (given
that I booted from ada1p2)?
Ideally I'd like boot and swap etc set up as well, which I kinda did
already with sade.
I already had the issue with freebsd-install/MANIFTEST missing and did a
basic install to ada0, but it seems a bit naff to unmount all my ZFS
mountpoints just to tar across all the rest of it.
Any pointers?
More information about the freebsd-questions
mailing list