From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 9 00:29:17 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 CEF6E16A4CE for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 00:29:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from vms042pub.verizon.net (vms042pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACA5643D41 for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 00:29:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ringworm01@gmail.com) Received: from ringworm.mechee.com ([4.27.46.32])0.04 <0ID200EDS6OSJ200@vms042.mailsrvcs.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 18:29:17 -0600 (CST) Received: by ringworm.mechee.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 180122CE743; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 16:29:15 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 16:29:15 -0800 From: "Michael C. Shultz" In-reply-to: <422E4121.9000307@makeworld.com> To: racerx@makeworld.com Message-id: <200503081629.15355.ringworm01@gmail.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <422E4121.9000307@makeworld.com> User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 00:29:17 -0000 On Tuesday 08 March 2005 04:19 pm, 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. Assuming the partion/id of the second drive is ad1s1d then mount /dev/ad1s1d /mnt would let you mount it on /mnt so nothing is changed on your first drive..... -Mike