Disk management

On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:57:21 -0800, tim1948 <iconoklastic@yahoo.com>
wrote:
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>A while ago, I speculated on what one ought to do if FreeBSD were
>removed from one point in the filesystem of a computer and restored in
>another. Yes, edit fstab. Here's what I did today:
>
>"I had a 120-GB boot drive with Vista and a 250-GB slave drive with a
>30-GB FreeBSD installation in the middle of it, and no other useful
>data. I wished to have Vista on the 250-GB drive and the FreeBSD
>installation in the root of the 120-GB drive, allowing the rest of it
>to be used for something else.
>
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>First things first: the mount points in FreeBSD's fstab have to be
>changed to reflect the new location. For example, /dev/ad1s3a will
>become /dev/ad1s1a. Now shut it down.
>
>************************************
>
>I have TrueImage installed in Vista. This was used to copy the FreeBSD
>partition to an external USB drive, sector by sector. Then, using the
>TI boot disk, the master drive was cloned to the 250-GB slave. Turn
>off the power. Switch the drives. Boot with Gparted CD and erase the
>120-GB disk. Boot into Vista, and using TI copy the FreeBSD partition
>to the root of the 120-GB disk. (I now use System Commander as the
>boot manager, and it automatically handles all changes in operating
>systems.)"
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Now, tell us how to do it without having Vista. :)

The problem with having two operating systems on the same machine is
that you need two operating systems to accomplish what others do using
only one.
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>I may use the rest of the 120-GB disk for a new FreeBSD installation.
>If so, there will be two little devils in System Commander.
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