Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:25:11 -0400 From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Aitor San Juan <asanjuan@bolsabilbao.es> Subject: Re: Installing a second hard disk Message-ID: <200703131525.11631.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <1C03BB1950F15F48B9E9654E0EFA42CA049EE7@bb04.bolsabilbao.local> References: <1C03BB1950F15F48B9E9654E0EFA42CA049EE7@bb04.bolsabilbao.local>
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On Tuesday 13 March 2007 13:05, Aitor San Juan wrote: > Hi List, > > I am trying to install a secondary hard disk in a Intel-based PC > with FreeBSD 5.4 > > This secondary disk's capacity is 250 Gb. When I enter sysintall > to try to format it and create a slice, FreeBSD says that the > geometry of disk is not correct. I, then, type in the values detected > by the BIOS as suggested, but FreeBSD still complains that those > are not valid. FreeBSD sees the new disk as a disk of approx. 131 GB. > > So my question is: where is the problem? Is it that FreeBSD is not > able to recognise such a big disk capacity? > > Any hint, suggestion, or web link would be highly appreciated. Assuming the new disk is ad4, and you want a single FreeBSD slice/partition/FS covering the whole disk: fdisk -BI /dev/ad4 bsdlabel -wB /dev/ad4s1 newfs -U /dev/ad4s1a See the manpages for each command for more details. The -B flags aren't necessary if you never plan to boot from the new disk, but they don't hurt anything either. If you want multiple FreeBSD partitions you could run a "bsdlabel -e" after the first bsdlabel command above, and additional newfs commands as appropriate. Continuing the example above, you could do: mkdir /newdisk mount /dev/ad4s1a /newdisk echo "/dev/ad4s1a /newdisk ufs rw 2 2" >> /etc/fstab To both mount the new filesystem and have it mounted automatically at boot. See the fstab manpage for details about that. (You could of course use a text editor to modify fstab instead of the echo command above.) JN
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