From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 29 04:17:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA20039 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 04:17:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bbq.websource.com.au (bbq.websource.com.au [203.12.233.198]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA19972 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 04:17:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zaphod (zaphod.apnpc.com.au [203.12.233.194]) by bbq.websource.com.au (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA01077 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 21:21:48 GMT Message-Id: <199609292121.VAA01077@bbq.websource.com.au> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Mark Cheeseman" Organization: WebSource Pty Ltd To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 09:17:28 +1000 Subject: Adding a second disk - what am I missing? Reply-to: cheese@websource.com.au Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.01) Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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:-( 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... 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". Can anybody tell me why it is unavailable, and further, how to make it available? BTW I'm still running 2.1-STABLE -- adding this extra space is a pre-requisite to upgrading. Thanks in advance -mark -- Mark Cheeseman VK2XGK cheese@asstdc.com.au cheese@apnpc.com.au Tel +61 2 9936 8689 http://www.apnpc.com.au http://www.websource.com.au