From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 16 02:14:38 2004 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 9188716A4CE for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 02:14:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.cableone.net (scanmail1.cableone.net [24.116.0.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F6DD43D2D for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 02:14:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from v.velox@vvelox.net) Received: from vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net (unverified [24.119.62.13]) by smail1.cableone.net (SurgeMail 1.9b) with ESMTP id 18103053 for multiple; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 19:02:21 -0700 Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 21:13:55 -0500 From: Vulpes Velox To: "dave" Message-ID: <20040915211355.577f9b6c@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> In-Reply-To: <000501c49b87$21821540$0701a8c0@ritta> References: <000501c49b87$21821540$0701a8c0@ritta> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12a (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.10) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question 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: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 02:14:38 -0000 On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 07:50:15 +0700 "dave" wrote: > Hello, > I'm new in freebsd..and want to ask something. > 1. Can freebsd handle more than 80 giga Harddisk? > (maybe I want to use 100-200 Giga HD for data) > 2. If I plugin a new harddisk, can be outomatic detect or I use do > manual configuration? I know it can easily handle 160GB drives as I have some. It should handle 200GB just fine. The drive will be manually detected, but you will have to created a new fs and ect on it your self. You may find this fun :) http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks.html And there is plenty of other cool info in there too :)