From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 8 07:22:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4257916A4CE for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 07:22:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC53943D48 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 07:22:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bkeating@gmail.com) Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 76so1302rnk for ; Fri, 08 Oct 2004 00:22:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.13.47 with SMTP id 47mr8877rnm; Fri, 08 Oct 2004 00:22:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.39.1.6 with HTTP; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 00:22:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1d54d5440410080022581fc4b1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 00:22:33 -0700 From: "Benjamin P. Keating" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: simple documentation question (adding a disk) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Benjamin P. Keating" List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 07:22:34 -0000 The 'Adding a Disk' page in the Handbook explains how to add disks to the system via /stand/sysinstall http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-adding.html Im running FreeBSD 5.2.1 and followed the directions on the above link but fdisk gave me a heads up when trying to commit my changes (w): %<--------------------------- WARNING:This should only be used when modifying an EXISTING installation. If you are installing FreeBSD for the first time then you should simply type Q when you're finished here and your changes will be committed in one batch automatically at the end of these questions. If you're adding a disk, you should NOT write from this screen, you should do it from the label editor. >%--------------------------- Im just curious, is the documentation out of date or the sysinstall > configure > fdisk? Doing it via the 'label editor', im assuming mean bsdlabel, correct? Then this confuses me because dmesg reports i have a (for example) ad4 device (/dev/ lists no other ad4 slices). So i do a: %<--------------------------- bigbang:admin> sudo bsdlabel -e ad4 bsdlabel: /dev/ad4: no valid label found >%--------------------------- Would anyone be so kind to share with me there notes on adding a new disk to a system? sysinstall > congiure > fdisk seems to work but that warning confuses me. Thanks. - bpk