From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 5 07:26:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA20454 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 07:26:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from net1.netview.net (netview.net [199.3.74.250]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA20449 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 07:26:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corona ([199.3.71.88]) by net1.netview.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA05862 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 09:25:59 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <2.2.32.19960805142645.006fbd88@netview.net> X-Sender: jrclark@netview.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 05 Aug 1996 09:26:45 -0500 To: questions@freebsd.org From: John Clark Subject: disklabel? What a joke! Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, I am trying to add my first disk to a FreeBSD system. If I am not mistaken it appears that one must: fdisk, disklabel, then newfs the disk. If this is true, then this part of FreeBSD is a joke. I thought the Linux utility was bad, but at least it is useable. Has anyone ever successfully added a disk like this? I must be wrong in my initial assessment of this situation as there would certainly be documentation on how to do this in the handbook or FAQ. Perhaps I am the only one dumb enough to need help and ask a question, but it would seem to me that this would be "frequent" (aka FAQ). Not having a method of easily repairing partitions and upgrading hardware is like running a system without passwords. Sorry if this seems like a flame, but I am incredulous. What is with all of the secrecy surrounding this issue? John Clark [jc@netview.net]