From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 4 7:44:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (mta6.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 300EA37B718 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 07:44:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fscked@pacbell.net) Received: from pacbell.net ([63.204.133.243]) by mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0G9O00BIOJLUCA@mta6.snfc21.pbi.net> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 07:41:54 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 07:55:48 -0800 From: richard childers Subject: Re: Hot swap IDE device? To: 3phase Cc: Christopher Farley , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <3AA26584.32590761@pacbell.net> Organization: The Free State of Dis MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en References: <20010301112155.A5003@northernbrewer.com> <3AA01349.AE0F5D2B@pacbell.net> <058401c0a406$9f13ae00$4fa0480c@sisyphus2> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A cool idea; I'm not in a position to try it, though ... -- richard 3phase wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "richard childers" > To: "Christopher Farley" > Cc: > 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 -- Richard A. Childers Senor UNIX Administrator fscked@pacbell.net (email) 203.556.8471 (voice/msgs) # Providing administrative expertise (not 'damage control') since 1986. # PGP fingerprint: 7EFF 164A E878 7B04 8E9F 32B6 72C2 D8A2 582C 4AFA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message