Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 14:16:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Mark Cheeseman <cheese@websource.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding a second disk - what am I missing? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960929141444.911A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199609292121.VAA01077@bbq.websource.com.au>
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On Sun, 29 Sep 1996, Mark Cheeseman wrote: > I've installed and run FreeBSD on several systems but until now, I've > never had occasion to add an extra hard drive to an existing system. > Now I do, and can't get it to work:-( This is a continually evolving topic... > I'm following the entry in the FAQ titled "How can I add my new hard > disk to my FreeBSD system?", but am not getting very far. I've > partitioned and labelled the new drive (a single file system over the > whole drive) using /stand/sysinstall. That much seems to be fine... OK... > Then the FAQ says "newfs /dev/sd0s1". I get two errors at this point: > the first says it's not a character-special device (if I use > /dev/rsd0s1 I get around this problem). The next message is a little > less helpful: "newfs: /dev/sd0s1: `1' partition is unavailable". You need to specify a BSD partition, ie a,d,e etc. I assume you're using the entire disk and don't want to partition it, so newfs the a drive: newfs /dev/rsd0s1a Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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