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Subject: Re: Adding Disk Drive
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Edward Brown wrote:
> 
> I have a server running FreeBSD 4.5, which currently has 2 disk drives. 
> One is being used and one has never been touched. I would like to format 
> and possibly partition, and then begin using this 2nd drive.
> 
> How should I proceed?
> 
> Thanks,
> Edward Brown

Hi. This section of the handbook should be helpful:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-adding.html

I used the "sysinstall" method on several drives a couple weeks ago. It 
worked great.

-Mark