From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 5 12:40:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA14065 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 12:40:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA14057 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 12:40:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.Stanford.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA06619; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 12:39:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 12:39:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: jc@netview.net Subject: Re: disklabel? What a joke! Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 5 Aug 1996, John Clark wrote: > 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 haven't, but I have added a second scsi drive and installed the operating system on it. This requires at least a / partition. Both disks are bootable; when one boots, it mounts the file systems from the other. I suppose on the "old" one I could delete the files and put whatever I wanted there--e.g., move /usr/home to /home on the "other" drive or whatever. >From the descriptions of newfs that I've seen this would seem to be more straightforward--just an install, after all--and functionally equivalent, although for the price of 30 megs or so it seems nice to have both disks bootable. Is this not functionally equivalent? If not, how not? Annelise