Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 23:44:51 -0800 From: "3phase" <phase3@worldnet.att.net> To: "richard childers" <fscked@pacbell.net>, "Christopher Farley" <chris@northernbrewer.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Hot swap IDE device? Message-ID: <058401c0a406$9f13ae00$4fa0480c@sisyphus2> References: <20010301112155.A5003@northernbrewer.com> <3AA01349.AE0F5D2B@pacbell.net>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "richard childers" <fscked@pacbell.net> To: "Christopher Farley" <chris@northernbrewer.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 01:40 PM Subject: Re: Hot swap IDE device? > I believe this would be possible provided that all filesystem(s) > associated with that disk had been explicitly unmounted. <> > I'm not sure what would happen when the kernel encountered a > different drive geometry, though, or if it would be able to become > aware of it without a reboot, should you want to use this single > bay for multiple devices (as your question suggests). <> Would disklabel be able to do that or have I mis-read another man page? It says it can update the kernel but I have not actually tried it. Is it possible to keep/make a few disk labels as files, load them for the appropriate drive, and then mount the filesystem? Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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