From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 9 00:26:09 2005 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 01FA216A4CE for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 00:26:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from skipjack.no-such-agency.net (skipjack.no-such-agency.net [64.142.114.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4F6843D2D for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 00:26:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jpp@cloudview.com) Received: from skipjack.no-such-agency.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by skipjack.no-such-agency.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ECBA34D44D; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 16:26:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.120] (blackhole.no-such-agency.net [64.142.103.196]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by skipjack.no-such-agency.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBFD434D44C; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 16:26:07 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <422E429F.3010707@cloudview.com> Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 16:26:07 -0800 From: John Pettitt Organization: CloudView Photographic User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: racerx@makeworld.com References: <422E4121.9000307@makeworld.com> In-Reply-To: <422E4121.9000307@makeworld.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.1.1 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AV-Checked: by skipjack cc: FreeBSD - Questions Subject: Re: Adding a 2nd disk without messing with the 1st X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 00:26:09 -0000 Chris wrote: >I have a 5.3 system that has an 80 gig drive. I wish to add another to >it. What's the best (easiest) way to expand this with little to no >effect on the current drive. > > shutdown machine, plug in disk, switch machine on. (if it's a USB disk you can skip the on off part) Seriously adding another drive should make no difference at all to your existing drive. Once the new drive is in you'll need to partition it (man fdisk), label it (man bsdlabel) and decide where to mount it (man mount). John