Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:03:50 -0800 From: Michael Collette <Michael.Collette@TestEquity.com> To: FreeBSD Lists <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Automating Drive Formatting Message-ID: <4384AF06.4090809@TestEquity.com>
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I'm looking for some way to script together an automatic formatting of a hard drive. Having a fair amount of difficulty locating some good information on doing this. For example, let's say there's an unknown IDE drive that's at least 40G in size. On that drive I want to create 1 partition with 3 labels. 2 of the labels get 10G, and the 3rd gets whatever is left. My reason for doing this is that we've set up a couple of servers that are running diskless, but are bogging down a bit with getting everything via NFS. I'm trying to get a diskless box note the installed drive, check to see if it's in the format I expect, and if not perform the bsdlabel, newfs, and all that. I know the basic info is somewhere accessible, or sysinstall wouldn't have this stuff available. Just need a shove in the right direction please. Thanks, -- Michael Collette IT Manager TestEquity Inc Michael.Collette@TestEquity.com http://www.testequity.com/
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