Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 14:52:32 -0800 (PST) From: Dave Babler <dbabler@Rigel.orionsys.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Adding a new disk Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.961222140103.407A-100000@Rigel.orionsys.com>
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Nothing like treading over familiar ground... I just added a new WD 1.6GB IDE disk to my 2.1.5-STABLE. I read the FAQ, which unfortunately describes behavior of /stand/sysinstall contrary to mine (there is no "expert mode" as described in the FAQ, and none of the steps was really a good fit, especially the part that said to exit WITHOUT comitting any changes). At any rate, I reverted to the man pages and the "Running FreeBSD" book. What I did was: 1. ran as much of the FAQ steps as possible - IOW, ran sysinstall's partition editor, told it to use all the disk and then quit w/o saving. 2. ran disklabel. The new disk showed 3 partitions, with the first two being marked as <UNUSED> and the third as being FreeBSD. Then ran 'disklabel -r -w /dev/rwd1c auto' which correctly set up the geometry (3148 cyl, 16 hds, 63 sec/trk). I then edited the disklabel manually to set the actual RPM and name. 3. ran newfs with default parameters: 'newfs /dev/rwd1c' 4. edited /etc/fstab to add /dev/rwd1c and rebooted. Everything *seemed* to be okay, except that now when I boot, I get kernel messages: /kernel: wd1: invalid primary partition table: no magic ...listed twice. Running fsck on the disk usually gives me: BLK(S) MISSING IN BITMAPS SUMMARY INFORMATION BAD Although the only complaints when checking the fs on boot are the 'no magic' warnings. What have I hosed up? Should I have run fdisk first (I thought that was only needed to maintain DOS compatability)? TIA... -Dave
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