From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 28 00:00:19 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 805EA16A4CE for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 00:00:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [198.92.228.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C680643D39 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 00:00:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 016FB6244; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 18:00:18 -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 69959-01; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 17:59:59 -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 7FFC260E7; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 17:59:59 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <41D0A23A.4050200@makeworld.com> Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 18:00:58 -0600 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041218) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <443bxr8hgu.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <41D09F96.4030708@daleco.biz> <41D0A0CF.7070406@makeworld.com> In-Reply-To: <41D0A0CF.7070406@makeworld.com> 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: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 00:00:19 -0000 Chris wrote: > 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? > I wanted to add this - this is the example: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media/x221.html -- Best regards, Chris Things get worse under pressure.