Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 09:15:53 +0100 From: Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> Subject: Re: Desktop reconfig Message-ID: <20160411091553.329a0231@curlew.lan> In-Reply-To: <570B4FF8.4030906@FreeBSD.org> References: <5709129B.8070508@columbus.rr.com> <570B4FF8.4030906@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 08:19:20 +0100 Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > Yes, this should work fine, but you'll need to be careful that you don't > accidentally overwrite the wrong drive from the installer. Depending on > the details of your hardware it's entirely possible that the new drives > you add for ZFS could end up as ada0, ada1, ... with your previous > drives as ada4 and ada5. Taking out the original ada1 while doing the > initial install would be a simple way of avoiding that. ZFS should > continue to work just fine as you shuffle the disks around. But. before making the change, it would be advisable to change over to using disk labels rather than /dev/ada* in /etc/fstab for the UFS filesystems. This would avoid any problems if the drives come back up with different device names. -- Mike Clarke
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