Adam Vande More wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:58 AM, PJ <af.gour...@videotron.ca > <mailto:af.gour...@videotron.ca>> wrote: > > Actually, I have been trying to clone a disk and then install the disk > in another machine or same clone in several machines. That's why I > thought that once the clone is make it would boot on any machine. This > in presuming that each clone is identical including the fstab file; I > understood that this would allow immediate bootup regardless of > what the > disk may be ad4, ad1, ad12 or whatever. This would permit changing the > necessary configurations of samba, network, etc. Now I see that it > doesn't work that way. I can still clone the disk but then just > have to > find what disk is the clone. > > > Are all the systems identical?� If so, make sure cabling is identical > as well then gmirror clone would work as well. > > Also my understanding of glabel is different than mentioned above.� As > long as fstab mounts the glabel location eg /dev/ufs/<label> it should > be portable across systems since that info is stored as meta data on > the drive. > > What does your fstab look like? # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/label/swap none swap sw 0 0 /dev/label/rootfs / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/label/backups /backups ufs rw 2 2 /dev/label/home /home ufs rw 2 2 /dev/label/tmp /tmp ufs rw 2 2 /dev/label/usr /usr ufs rw 2 2 /dev/label/var /var ufs rw 2 2 /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 linproc /usr/compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 0
this is ad12; ad6 is the same - I guess I hae to get rid of those labels in ad6 but am not sure if I need to use glabel to remove them or if just editing fstab will do it? _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
