From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 30 12:37:20 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC8AC37B401 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 12:37:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BC4EE43F85 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 12:37:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1049488639.1fe3a5@mired.org) Received: (qmail 30814 invoked from network); 30 Mar 2003 20:37:19 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 30 Mar 2003 20:37:19 -0000 Received: by guru.mired.org (tmda-inject, from uid 100); Sun, 30 Mar 2003 14:37:19 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16007.21886.365006.857990@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 14:37:18 -0600 To: "kirt" In-Reply-To: <000701c2f6f5$17434460$0a00000a@noodlexp> References: <000701c2f6f5$17434460$0a00000a@noodlexp> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.73 (Jet Pilot) cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: switching IDE controllers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 20:37:22 -0000 In <000701c2f6f5$17434460$0a00000a@noodlexp>, kirt typed: > i've checked the handbook, man pages, web, etc. for info regarding > this and i'm still not entirely sure as to how i should go about it. Yes you are. > i want to take ad4, which is where FreeBSD is installed and all of my > main partitions are (/ , /var , /tmp , /usr , and the swap), and move > it to the on-board controller. the other 3 drives are nothing but > data for samba shares. > > i've gathered that i will have to change the mount points in > /etc/fstab to reflect the new drive location (ad0), but past that i > am unsure as to what all needs to be done to have the machine boot > correctly. That should do it. You may have to tweak the BIOS boot settings so it boots from the new ad0. I don't have the hardware you do, so I can't check that. While you're adding new drives, I'd recommend adding a second swap partition. Letting the kernel interleave paging across two drives improves paging performance. If you're not paging, it doesn't matter. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information.