From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 29 09:45:46 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA02733 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 09:45:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from ferrari.sfu.ca (ferrari.sfu.ca [142.58.110.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA02728 for ; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 09:45:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from gumby.ve7zd.ampr.org ([142.58.14.242]) by ferrari.sfu.ca with SMTP (8.7.1/SFU-2.6H) id JAA06717 for (from mcquiggi@sfu.ca); Fri, 29 Dec 1995 09:45:41 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199512291745.JAA06717@ferrari.sfu.ca> X-Sender: mcquiggi@ferrari.sfu.ca X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 09:45:11 -0800 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Kevin McQuiggin Subject: Tutorial on partitioning, disklabel, newfs? Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I have just added a new HD to my 2.1 system. As it's the kind of thing that I only do once in awhile, I'm very shaky about the esoterics of fdisk, diskpart, disklabel, newfs, etc. Is there any good documentation available about how BSD organizes and names partitions, rules for partitioning HDs, etc? I have several questions. I'd like to read up on this so that I don't have to hack around next time to get things working. I found one helpful entry in the FAQ about disklabel, but this still didn't give an overview of the requirements. Similarly, I have "Essential System Administration" by Frisch, but it isn't specific enough to FreeBSD. Any info would be appreciated, Kevin --- Kevin McQuiggin VE7ZD mcquiggi@sfu.ca