From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 27 23:54:09 2004 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 DE82816A4CE for ; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 23:54:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [198.92.228.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81B1143D60 for ; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 23:54:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C599E60EA; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 17:54:08 -0600 (CST) Received: from makeworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (makeworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 69428-09; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 17:53:56 -0600 (CST) Received: from [198.92.228.34] (racerx.makeworld.com [198.92.228.34]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3876360E7; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 17:53:56 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <41D0A0CF.7070406@makeworld.com> Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 17:54:55 -0600 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041218) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Kinsey References: <443bxr8hgu.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <41D09F96.4030708@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <41D09F96.4030708@daleco.biz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by ClamAV 0.75.1/amavisd-new-2.2.0 (20041102) at makeworld.com - Isn't it ironic cc: Eric F Crist cc: Lowell Gilbert cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: add a harddrive to an existing system 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, 27 Dec 2004 23:54:10 -0000 Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Lowell Gilbert wrote: > >> Eric F Crist writes: >> >> >> >>> Where, in the handbook, can I find where to add a new hard drive to an >>> existing system? I know vaguely that I need to do a newfs and such, >>> as well as an fdisk, but I don't know what all the options mean and >>> how to best optimize this drive. Also, I'm thinking of obtaining an >>> identical drive as my system drive and performing a dump of sorts on a >>> schedule for backup purposes. anyone have any insight? >>> >> >> >> Not actually in the Handbook, but what you want is: the "Disk >> Formatting Tutorial". >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media/index.html >> >> >> > > > There *is* a chapter in the handbook, however; it's Chapter 16 in > my latest doc build (but I don't think it's quite _new_). Section .3, > entitled "adding disks", covers the scenario quite well. > > HTH, > > Kevin Kinsey I read that also however, I have a question about it. In the example I read (by Doug White) he used /usr/home as the point of reference. The question I have is this, what becomes of the space left over on the 1st drive now that /usr/home has been effectively moved? Can you merge this in someplace else? Say /swap or /var? -- Best regards, Chris Nothing is ever so bad it can't be made worse by firing the coach.