Subject: Re: Moving a disk from pmax to alpha
To: Nino Margetic <nino@well.ox.ac.uk>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-alpha
Date: 07/24/2000 14:16:17
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 12:03:58AM +0100, Nino Margetic wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Are the pmax and alpha partitions/disks binary compatible? In other words,
> can I just unplug a disk from a 5000/133 to plug it into a 3000/700 or do
> I have to dump/label/newfs/restore? Both pmax and alpha are running 1.4.2.
> TIA.

I think you need to save the disklabel somewhere (disklabel sdX > fileX)
and relabel the disk on the alpha (disklabel -r -R sdX fileX). After that
you should be able to mount your partitions just fine.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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