Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 23:40:32 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: Omar Thameen <omar@westside.urbanblight.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bsdlabel and moving to a bigger drive Message-ID: <42E56A60.7040206@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <20050725101147.GA79920@biglist.com> References: <20050725101147.GA79920@biglist.com>
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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. > > > 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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