Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 16:26:07 -0800 From: John Pettitt <jpp@cloudview.com> To: racerx@makeworld.com Cc: FreeBSD - Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Adding a 2nd disk without messing with the 1st Message-ID: <422E429F.3010707@cloudview.com> In-Reply-To: <422E4121.9000307@makeworld.com> References: <422E4121.9000307@makeworld.com>
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Chris wrote: >I have a 5.3 system that has an 80 gig drive. I wish to add another to >it. What's the best (easiest) way to expand this with little to no >effect on the current drive. > > shutdown machine, plug in disk, switch machine on. (if it's a USB disk you can skip the on off part) Seriously adding another drive should make no difference at all to your existing drive. Once the new drive is in you'll need to partition it (man fdisk), label it (man bsdlabel) and decide where to mount it (man mount). John
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