From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 5 08:22:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA24830 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 08:22:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from seagull.rtd.com (root@seagull.rtd.com [198.102.68.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA24821 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 08:22:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dgy@localhost) by seagull.rtd.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA01077; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 08:22:50 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis Message-Id: <199608051522.IAA01077@seagull.rtd.com> Subject: Re: disklabel? What a joke! To: jc@netview.net (John Clark) Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 08:22:50 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960805142645.006fbd88@netview.net> from "John Clark" at Aug 5, 96 09:26:45 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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? Yes. I did this back in the 1.1.5.1R days. > 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. Passwords? Gee, what are they??? :> I think sysinstall does this in 2.1.5R... --don