Date: 23 Nov 2005 13:52:47 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Michael Collette <Michael.Collette@TestEquity.com> Cc: FreeBSD Lists <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Automating Drive Formatting Message-ID: <44wtiz42o0.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <4384AF06.4090809@TestEquity.com> References: <4384AF06.4090809@TestEquity.com>
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Michael Collette <Michael.Collette@TestEquity.com> writes: > I'm looking for some way to script together an automatic formatting of a hard > drive. Having a fair amount of difficulty locating some good information on > doing this. > > For example, let's say there's an unknown IDE drive that's at least 40G in > size. On that drive I want to create 1 partition with 3 labels. 2 of the > labels get 10G, and the 3rd gets whatever is left. > > My reason for doing this is that we've set up a couple of servers that are > running diskless, but are bogging down a bit with getting everything via NFS. > I'm trying to get a diskless box note the installed drive, check to see if > it's in the format I expect, and if not perform the bsdlabel, newfs, and all > that. > > I know the basic info is somewhere accessible, or sysinstall wouldn't have > this stuff available. Just need a shove in the right direction please. There are a *lot* of ways to roll-your-own, but have you tried "man sysinstall"?
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