From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 9 04:09:20 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 6AFFF16A4CE for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 04:09:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.monochrome.org (b4.ebbed1.client.atlantech.net [209.190.235.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FA0343D55 for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 04:09:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Received: from frambozen (frambozen [192.168.1.9]) by mail.monochrome.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA19572; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 23:09:16 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 23:09:58 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Hill To: Chris In-Reply-To: <422E4121.9000307@makeworld.com> Message-ID: <20050308230020.W9032@frambozen.monochrome.org> References: <422E4121.9000307@makeworld.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed 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 04:09:20 -0000 On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, 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. You want this second disk for extra storage, right? Not for dual-boot or something? Assuming extra storage, you could do what I did: Shut down the machine, install the second disk, power up the machine. Once you're booted, look at dmesg to see how the new drive was detected (maybe ad4? depends on your mobo's controllers and how/where the new disk was connected). I then ran /stand/sysinstall (this was back in the 4.x days) and created and newfs'd one big partition on the new disk. Then did #mkdir /usr1, and added an entry to /etc/fstab: /dev/ad5s1c /usr1 ufs rw 2 2 ...and suddenly there was another 160GB available under /usr1. Effect on the first drive: zero. HTH... YMMV. -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ]