How to add a disk to a new system without losing the data on it?

Vincent Zee basics at zenzee.cistron.nl
Fri Sep 12 14:10:16 PDT 2003


On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:04:22 -0700 (PDT), Dan Strick wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>  How do I add a disk containing data to a new system without erasing
>>  that data.
>> 
>>  I searched the mailinglist and the documentation but could not find
>>  information
>>  for this scenario.
>> 
>>  The system in question is running 4.8
>>  The disk is coming from a 5.1 system and uses ufs with softupdates.
>>  The disk has one partition.
>>>>>>>> 
> 
> Would that be UFS1 with softupdates or UFS2 with softupdates?
> I don't think FreeBSD 4.8 understands UFS2.  If you didn't specify UFS1
> when you made the file system on FreeBSD 5.1, you got UFS2 format.
> 
> Otherwise the disk should just move.  (The MBR partition/slice table
> and the FreeBSD disk-label/partition-table formats are the same.)
> 
> dan

Hi Dan,

when on 5.1 I used the defaults so that would be UFS2 then.
MMmm, ok sounds like a new install of 5.1 I guess (:-))
Thanks Dan and all the others who so kindly helped me!!

/\
Vincent


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