From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 7 09:31:47 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A07A37B401 for ; Mon, 7 Jul 2003 09:31:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from asarian-host.net (mail.asarian-host.net [194.109.160.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2DCE43F3F for ; Mon, 7 Jul 2003 09:31:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from admin@asarian-host.net) Comments: To protect the identity of the sender, certain header fields are either not shown, or masked. Anonymous email addresses for asarians can be requested by filling in the appropriate form at: https://asarian-host.net/cgi-bin/signup.cgi Received: (from root@localhost) by mail.asarian-host.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h67GVe58026908 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 7 Jul 2003 18:31:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from admin@asarian-host.net) From: Mark Message-Id: <200307071631.H67GVC5K026900@asarian-host.net> Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 16:31:39 GMT X-Authenticated-Sender: admin@asarian-host.net X-Trace: TJYlYQ/erhDrEQMB+SmxTBiILsK61u8Ih1U3G+OQJWMluGys97M0hx35ZglHq7/Y3v2RnILGi5wVDmL83KSI6g== X-Complaints-To: abuse@asarian-host.net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we are unable to process your complaint Organization: Asarian-host To: References: <200307071457.H67EVR5K014987@asarian-host.net> <20030707154706.GB93279@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Auth: Asarian-host PGP signature iQEVAwUAPwmgbDFqW1BleBN9AQGEZwgAluWfxEt1lWLkDwI1chEMvHs7FShM6daW irRz5jfVIiulpl6nZm73PB9QMBuK1fpKUs1oAqQG+uzHNEyHAMJoxJ1gP8wZojvd QNAq191zLY+9AeH/rJBzPrCuGNuNYcBJlMAouAV1vJDxRasNn5/i0UHFpfk5pJNs wxHxydDDR4W3P1xoYXesaKxbfpn/zm9Ybd87LqL0dsho2S7NThOwwDDPhjhQtWFb b3VOqq6+v5j87R2N2v0tc7LIJpVjgrxBEQN8S2ZedRXYTUWUi4z3OwViLq2opcWQ ATBlTLgVrPDhFcMuyEqnWjQsgPLx44x1Vt7Pl4p9SqVbyjFMmzFIrA== =E29j Subject: Re: Adding new hard disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 16:31:47 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Seaman" To: "Mark" Cc: Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 5:47 PM Subject: Re: Adding new hard disk > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 02:57:28PM +0000, Mark wrote: > > > Ok, I bought a new 80G hard disk, for backups. I added it on the second > > IDE. But now, when I ran FDISK and the Label program (booted from CD), > > it will not allow me to just add /backup as mount point, and says it > > wants a root + swap partition too. :( I did "W" when writing out the info, > > but still, /etc/fstab is unchanged. > > > > All I want is to add the new hard disk as mount point /backup. Please, > > tell me how to do this. > > When you say "booted from CD" I take it you're using sysinstall(8). > That makes certain assumptions like "you're going to install a FreeBSD > system on this disk". Yes, you are right. I used sysinstall. :) > Instead of working through sysinstall, you can use the fdisk(8) and > disklabel(8) tools from the command line. Assuming your new drive is > ad2 and you want to use it all for FreeBSD, but that you don't want it > to be bootable: > > # fdisk -I ad2 # disklabel -w ad2s1 auto ... I did everything you said, and it worked wonderfully well. :) Once again, Matthew, your excellent help was of great use to me. :) Thanks! - Mark