On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Daniel Nebdal <dnebdal_at_gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Thanks, John. I was afraid that was the answer. Now, II'm really >> confused. I'm guessing that the partitions will notl need to be shown >> in fstab (ada0s1a). What little mind I have left is a blank, >> /dev/ad4s1g will be automatically be detected. Is that correct? >> >> What will I do with my second disk /dev/ad0s1a that is already zero? >> >> I apologize but I have really confused myself. I've filled my glass >> with too much water and I'm drowning. >> >> Thanks for everyone's patience. >> >> ed >> >> P.S. If I am not the only idiot, maybe a couple of lines as an >> example could go into UPDATING. > > If I have understood ada correct, the "first" disk (lowest current > number) is ada0, the next ada1, and so on. If you have ad0 and ad4, > they will be ad0=ada0, and ad4=ada1 . It doesn't affect anything > _except_ the disk names, so ad4s1f = ada1s1f and so on. You'll have to > change most of your fstab, basically s/ad0/ada0/g and s/ad4/ada1/g . > > That said, my one ad to ada transition was on a ZFS-only system, which > took the fstab editing out of it. I might be horribly wrong in some or > all of the above. Thanks, Daniel. Your explanation makes sense to me and to eleminate problems with ad0, it is an old disk, that I will bring up later and just change ad4 to ada0 and ad4s1g to ada0s1g, etc. and reboot it again early tomorrow morning about 5 am CDT and will post a working fstab, if I manage to get it to work. Thanks again, ed > > -- > Daniel Nebdal >Received on Tue May 03 2011 - 16:19:37 UTC
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