Dave Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > To solve a problem I'm having with /var running out of space, I decided > to add a second hard drive. > > I found info at freebsd.org on adding disks using sysinstall and > followed the advice. The old disk is a Maxtor 6Y080L0 80G as ad0 and > the new disk is a Maxtor 6Y120P0 as ad3. I ran sysinstall, chose ad3 > and parition it with: / 512M, /swap 2G, /tmp 3G, /var 4G, /usr > 30G, /data 76G. Did an installation with Kern source and documentation. > Added a new user, and set a password for root. I added the FreeBSD boot > manager. > > I rebooted to ad0 (didn't have the FreeBSD boot manager on this drive > yet), and found I could no longer login as the regular user and that my > root password was the one I had just set up on ad3. I adduser my old > login and assigned it the original ID and got back the settings in my > home directory, although I don't know what I've doen to the > configuration files in /etc. > > I tried to put the FreeBSD boot manager on ad0 with: > boot0cfg -B ad0 but get an erro: > boot0cfg: open /de/ad0: no such file or directory > > I've googled this problem but have found little help except that it > shouldn't happen and it should be reported. > > I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 stable. I'm temped to start over from scratch > but would hate to lose everythin on ad0 without first transferring it to > ad3. I've tried to mount ad3 and ad3c (the only references to ad3 > in /dev) using: > mount /dev/ad3 /mnt/bigdrive but get an error: > mount: /dev/ad3 on /mnt/bigdrive: incorrect super block > > So I'm pretty lost. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've spent > 4-5 hrs googling for solutions but nothing seems to work.
It sure *sounds* like you accidentally did your install to the old disk instead of the new one. If that is the case, then your old data are indeed lost -- overwritten with the new install. Also, it sounds like you were following the advice for moving your whole system to the new disk, whereas the advice for *adding* the new disk to the old one would have been more appropriate. That's the "disk formatting tutorial" article in the documentation collection. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"