I have a system with two SCSI disks. da1 has a complete working system
on it that I need to clone onto da0. The disks are different sizes.
So I went to sysinstall and used 'disk label' to create the desired
structure. Thats where the problems started. If I create the first
partition and set the mount point to / and the second as a swap
partition and the third to mount at /usr then when writing the changes
there are a number of errors generated because it can't mount to those
points - they are in use. So then I tried to use 'disk label' and
create the structure using /mnt and /mnt1 (which do exist). That
worked fine and did the newfs. However, it created partitions d and e
rather than a and d. So I went back and reestablished the structure
using / and /usr to set the partitions to a and d and then went back
and changed the mount points to /mnt and /mnt1 before the write.
However, this generated an error that it couldn't write label.
Obviously I am doing something wrong since I have don this using
sysinstall and completing the system installation from CD. However, in
this case the machine is a long way away and the CD drive is empty.
The only thing you were doing wrong was using mount points that
were already in use. It doesn't really matter if the partition label
is d or e or whatever. You might want to make sure it uses a for root.
and b for swap because some things make that assumption. But, if you
use disklabel (or bsdlabel in 5.xxx) in edit mode you can specify which
letter label to use for each partition. You don't need to (can't) specify
a mount point in disklabel. You fix that up later by editing /etc/fstab.
jerry
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