I wish I knew this - rename mount

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freeme

Hi all,

I've been using FreeBSD for a couple years now, but for the life of me can't figure out how to change the name of a mount point! I set up a server with five HDDs and would like to use the mount /archive instead of, say, /disk2 for consistency across servers. Please see below for the df output.

Code: 
Filesystem  1K-blocks    Used     Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/da0s1a   1012974  258802    673136    28%    /
devfs               1       1         0   100%    /dev
/dev/da1s1d 279679700       4 257305320     0%    /disk2
/dev/da2s1d 279679700       4 257305320     0%    /disk3
/dev/da3s1d 279679700       4 257305320     0%    /disk4
/dev/da4s1d 279679700       4 257305320     0%    /disk5
/dev/da0s1e 274596660 1181654 251447274     0%    /usr
/dev/da0s1d   4058062     320   3733098     0%    /var

I can't find anything about renaming on the man pages. I traversed sysinstall to no avail--I don't care about losing data but I want to be able to do it all remotely. Any ideas?

Also, is there any way to mount more than one hard drive in the same location?
 
You need to edit /etc/fstab and point it to /archives. Once done type
Code: 
umount /disk2
mkdir /archives
mount /dev/da1s1d /archives
df
 
umount(1) the filesystem. Rename the mount point. Edit /etc/fstab to reflect the changes. Mount filesystem again. Done.
 
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