From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Sep 13 04:51:04 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16B7DE4EC6 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2019 04:51:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (mout.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.135]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "mout.kundenserver.de", Issuer "TeleSec ServerPass Class 2 CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 46V39y6XyYz47tY for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2019 04:51:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from r56.edvax.de ([178.5.234.134]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue009 [212.227.15.167]) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 1MyseA-1iLVpK12v4-00vwd6; Fri, 13 Sep 2019 06:50:56 +0200 Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 06:50:55 +0200 From: Polytropon To: james@mansionfamily.plus.com Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Moving boot disk - does not seem easy? 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Use labels - you no longer have to deal with device names that could change depending on detection order (or other properties). As long as there is the appropriate boot code installed and you are referencing the boot partition's label, it will work, no matter if it is ada0p2 or ada2p2. Documentation and examples: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom-glabel.html http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html#_the_new_standard_g= pt --=20 Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...