Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 00:22:33 -0700 From: "Benjamin P. Keating" <bkeating@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: simple documentation question (adding a disk) Message-ID: <1d54d5440410080022581fc4b1@mail.gmail.com>
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The 'Adding a Disk' page in the Handbook explains how to add disks to the system via /stand/sysinstall http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-adding.html Im running FreeBSD 5.2.1 and followed the directions on the above link but fdisk gave me a heads up when trying to commit my changes (w): %<--------------------------- WARNING:This should only be used when modifying an EXISTING installation. If you are installing FreeBSD for the first time then you should simply type Q when you're finished here and your changes will be committed in one batch automatically at the end of these questions. If you're adding a disk, you should NOT write from this screen, you should do it from the label editor. >%--------------------------- Im just curious, is the documentation out of date or the sysinstall > configure > fdisk? Doing it via the 'label editor', im assuming mean bsdlabel, correct? Then this confuses me because dmesg reports i have a (for example) ad4 device (/dev/ lists no other ad4 slices). So i do a: %<--------------------------- bigbang:admin> sudo bsdlabel -e ad4 bsdlabel: /dev/ad4: no valid label found >%--------------------------- Would anyone be so kind to share with me there notes on adding a new disk to a system? sysinstall > congiure > fdisk seems to work but that warning confuses me. Thanks. - bpk
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