Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 19:55:54 -0700 From: "Jeremiah Gowdy" <jgowdy@home.com> To: "Greg Skouby" <gskouby@sitesnow.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: taking out disks Message-ID: <000701c03ef8$4281aca0$aa240018@cx443070b> References: <20001025222420.A79459@sitesnow.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Skouby" <gskouby@sitesnow.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 7:24 PM Subject: taking out disks > Hello, > > > I have a system that is running: > 3.3-RELEASE FreeBSD. > > It is a netfinity machine with one internal scsi drive with four external drives connected to the same > adapter. The internal drive is da4 and it contains the OS. The four external drives are da0, da1, da2, > da3 and they are currently not being used. I had them in a vinum raid5 array but that died. (I realize > that is my own fault for running vinum raid5 on a 3.3-R system) Anyways, I need to take one of the > external drives out but I am fearing that when I do that on the next subsequent reboot the box will not > boot right because the drive with the OS on it will not be da4 anymore, it will become da3 because one > drive is not there. Am I correct? How can I accomplish this? Is it as easy as changing /etc/fstab to > point to the new drive instead of da4? (I really don't think it is). Thanks for your help and please let > me know if you need any more details. just change it in /etc/fstab and reboot. if it fails to mount your partitions, you'll be in single user mode and you can read dmesg and mount them by hand, then change /etc/fstab to what it should be. not like you're going to get locked out or anything, just thrown in single user mode at worst > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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