Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 09:09:33 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Marcus Zafarano <marcusz@discoverbrokerage.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: SCSI Tapes Message-ID: <19980408090933.56351@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <352AAC1B.4214@lombard.com>; from Marcus Zafarano on Tue, Apr 07, 1998 at 03:43:39PM -0700 References: <351C2248.751A@lombard.com> <19980328100309.14562@freebie.lemis.com> <351C45D6.6F6B@lombard.com> <19980328110941.28573@freebie.lemis.com> <3523BCA0.5BF@lombard.com> <19980407141845.51134@freebie.lemis.com> <352AAC1B.4214@lombard.com>
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On Tue, 7 April 1998 at 15:43:39 -0700, Marcus Zafarano wrote: > > Another questions is, the second HD on ID 6 is not formatted, how do I > format, newfs and mount the nfs partition? For reference, this is: (ahc0:6:0): "IBM DCAS-34330W S61A" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd1(ahc0:6:0): Direct-Access 4134MB (8467200 512 byte sectors) Note that it's sd1. To format: # scsiformat sd1 To newfs, you first need to partition the drive. That's complicated. Doug White has a tutorial on it at http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat/diskformat.html, and it's described in "The Complete FreeBSD", second edition (http://www.cdrom.com/titles/os/bsdbook2.htm). Basically, you need to decide whether you want to use the disk entirely for FreeBSD (which I would recommend), or whether you want to share it with other software. Many people call the former "dangerously dedicated mode". This is nonsense. There's nothing dangerous about it; in fact, there are fewer dangers than shared mode. The original idea behind the term "dangerous" was that you couldn't change your mind and share the disk with another operating system. If the disk is fully allocated, this applies to the shared model as well. If you can, choose dedicated mode. > I don't want to format the ID0 hd as it has my operating system on > it, but I am running out of room and really need to get the second > hd formatted and nfs mounted, and I don't want to kill my O/S hd. I > can do this, but I don't want to make a mistake. Can you give a step > procedure so I don't screw up my boot system? Make *very* sure that you get the disk number right! Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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