From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 9 13:56: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1753437B401 for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 13:56:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a153.otenet.gr [212.205.215.153]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f99Ktuk03846; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 23:55:57 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f999v8b14504; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 12:57:08 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from charon@labs.gr) Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 12:57:08 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: default Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing and Partitioning a new HD Message-ID: <20011009125708.C14289@hades.hell.gr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-GPG-Fingerprint: C1EB 0653 DB8B A557 3829 00F9 D60F 941A 3186 03B6 X-URL: http://labs.gr/~charon/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG default wrote: > Hi, > > I am about to add a second hard drive to my FreeBSD machine... and I was > hoping someone could give me some basic command instructions on what all I > need to do in order to have the drive be recognized and partitioned... There is a very nice article at FreeBSD.org about this. It's title is "Formatting Media For Use With FreeBSD". It's description in the list of the articles is "How to slice, partition, and format fixed and removable media on FreeBSD". Find this article at: [ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media/index.html ] There are also quite a few other useful articles, tutorials, and books available at www.FreeBSD.org. Find out about them at: [ http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html ] > I will need to edit the new info into /etc/fstab in order to have this > drive loaded from boot correct? Yes, please have a look at the manual page of fstab(5) with: % man 5 fstab > During my original installation, I only specified 1 hd driver, ... is there > anything special I need to do in order to be able to add another one in? > (like kernel re-config etc?) Well, that depends. What disks does your system have? What disk are you going to add? If it has IDE disks and you are adding another IDE disk, you usually have to set up the jumpers of the disks properly, indicating which is master and which is slave, and that's pretty much it. Then your BIOS and FreeBSD should be able to recognize the disk. -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message