From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 18 17:30:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA17660 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 18 Feb 1996 17:30:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.is.net (root@mail1.is.net [198.69.24.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA17655 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 1996 17:30:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from visual.is.net (visual.is.net [204.180.29.228]) by mail1.is.net (8.6.11/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA21810 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 1996 20:23:01 -0500 Message-ID: <31278A7E.41C67EA6@visual.is.net> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 20:22:22 +0000 From: Adam Mitchell X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: adding a disk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I have a blank IDE drive (wd1). I want to use 96MB for SWAP and the rest as /mnt_whatever. How do I initialize this blank disk? Here is my current "/etc/fstab" and "fdisk wd1" Thanks VERY much. AM /dev/wd0a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/wd0s3b none swap sw 0 0 proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 /dev/wd0s1 /dos msdos rw ******* Working on device /dev/rwd1 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=2100 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=2100 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 0 is: The data for partition 1 is: The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: