From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 9 13:55:47 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 4115616A4CE for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 13:55:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [216.201.118.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBB1543D2F for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 13:55:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0966D60DB; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 07:55:46 -0600 (CST) Received: from makeworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (makeworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 31818-05; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 07:55:42 -0600 (CST) Received: from [216.201.118.138] (racerx.makeworld.com [216.201.118.138]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C47C60D4; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 07:55:40 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <422F0068.8060900@makeworld.com> Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 07:55:52 -0600 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050101) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Hill References: <422E4121.9000307@makeworld.com> <20050308230020.W9032@frambozen.monochrome.org> In-Reply-To: <20050308230020.W9032@frambozen.monochrome.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by ClamAV 0.75.1/amavisd-new-2.2.1 (20041222) at makeworld.com - Isn't it ironic 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 Reply-To: racerx@makeworld.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 13:55:47 -0000 Chris Hill wrote: > 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 <|> ] > > Ok - seems easy enough - however, what if I want to move /usr/home to this new drive? -- Best regards, Chris A bird in hand is safer than one overhead.