From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 2 10:59:18 2003 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 223E237B401 for ; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 10:59:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from lyceum.netmojo.ca (lyceum.pims.sfu.ca [142.58.49.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EECF43F93 for ; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 10:59:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brent@lyceum.netmojo.ca) Received: from lyceum.netmojo.ca (flowctrl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lyceum.netmojo.ca (8.12.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h12IxGxc014641 for ; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 10:59:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brent@lyceum.netmojo.ca) Received: (from brent@localhost) by lyceum.netmojo.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h12IxGgK014640 for questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 10:59:16 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 10:59:16 -0800 From: Brent Kearney To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: filesystem disappeared following 4.2 -> 4.7 upgrade Message-ID: <20030202185916.GA14615@kearneys.ca> Reply-To: brent@kearneys.ca References: <20030202185009.GA14514@kearneys.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030202185009.GA14514@kearneys.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-URL: http://brent.kearneys.ca Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 10:50:09AM -0800, Brent Kearney wrote: > > Hello, > > I recently updated a system running freebsd 4.2 to 4.7. I realize > that there is new ATA code in 4.7. This system is on a SCSI disk, > but /home is on a large IDE drive. > > Following a 'make installkernel', I rebooted to single user mode, ran > installworld, then did mergemaster. I let mergemaster run the new > '/dev/MAKEDEV all'. > > The 4.2 system called my /home partition /dev/ad0s1e; during boot up > of 4.7, I see that the disk is recognized, but is called "ad5" instead > of "ad0". I haven't changed the hardware at all, btw. However, there > appears to be no /dev/ad5s1e, and furthermore, when I run the disklabel > editor, it tells me that there is no filesystem on /dev/ad5. If I > reboot to the old 4.2 kernel, somewhat problematically, I can mount > /dev/ad0s1e, and access my files. > > The UPDATING file mentioned the new ata code, but didn't say anything > about the need to re-create filesystems; I must be missing something. > I should also mention that softupdates is enabled on my old /dev/ad0s1e, though I don't know whether that is relevant. Brent To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message