From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 12 13:05:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA08794 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 13:05:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from seabass.progroup.com (catfish.progroup.com [206.24.122.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA08779 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 13:05:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from craig@tuna.progroup.com) Received: from ProGroup.COM (tuna.progroup.com [206.24.122.5]) by seabass.progroup.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA22517; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 13:04:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by ProGroup.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id NAA16163; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 13:04:08 -0800 From: craig@tuna.progroup.com (Craig W. Shaver) Message-Id: <199711122104.NAA16163@ProGroup.COM> Subject: Re: mounting a new HD To: francis@cody.usls.edu (Francis Vidal) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 13:04:07 -0800 (PST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Francis Vidal" at Nov 12, 97 07:39:29 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > hello everyone! > > i wanted to mount a new HD (2.1GB Seagate Medalist) on my FreeBSD machine > that has an existing 2.1GB (of the same model). how do i go about it? > > thanks! > > --- > FRANCIS VIDAL, USLSnet, University of St. La Salle, Bacolod City, PH > P G P key available at -- ftp://ftp.usls.edu/pub/pgpkeys/francis.pgp > > Did you partition and label and newfs the disk? If not, then go into the /stand/sysinstall program, and then go to the index section. Then go to the partition section and create a partition for FreeBSD. Write and Quit. Then back to the index. Go to the label section. Create a file system and give it a mount point. It is a good idea to create the mount point directory before doing this. Write, which will do the newfs and mount it, and Quit, and exit all the way out. You will probably have to edit /etc/fstab to add an entry for the auto mount and fsck on boot for the disk. There is a man page for fstab and mount to help you with this. Use the handbook to get more information about setting up new disks for an existing installation. -- Craig Shaver (craig@progroup.com) (415)390-0654 Productivity Group POB 60458 Sunnyvale, CA 94088