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Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 09:31:54 -0500
From: Jerry Kendall <jerry@border.com>
To: Adam Mitchell <adamm@visual.is.net>
Cc: questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: adding a disk
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Adam, I am almost finished writing a utility that I beleive I will
call 'diskmaint'(any one object ??). If you can wait a few more days,
I will be posting it...
 

On Sun, 18 Feb 1996, Adam Mitchell wrote:

> 
> I have a blank IDE drive (wd1).  I want to use 96MB for SWAP and the
> rest as /mnt_whatever.  How do I initialize this blank disk?  Here is
> my current "/etc/fstab" and "fdisk wd1"
> 
> Thanks VERY much.
> 
> AM
> 
> 
> 
> /dev/wd0a                       /               ufs     rw 1 1
> /dev/wd0s3b                     none            swap    sw 0 0
> proc                            /proc           procfs  rw 0 0
> /dev/wd0s1                      /dos            msdos   rw
> 
> 
> 
> ******* Working on device /dev/rwd1 *******
> parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
> cylinders=2100 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
> 
>  Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
> parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
> cylinders=2100 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
> 
> Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
> Information from DOS bootblock is:
> The data for partition 0 is:
> <UNUSED>
> The data for partition 1 is:
> <UNUSED>
> The data for partition 2 is:
> <UNUSED>
> The data for partition 3 is:
> <UNUSED>
> 

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