Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 11:45:22 -0800 From: Dave Webster <dwebman@telus.net> To: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> Subject: Re: adding a second hard drive Message-ID: <1131738322.991.2.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <44iruz1fih.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <1131613531.814.17.camel@Freeman.myLQ.ca> <44iruz1fih.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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Thank you for the reply. Your recommendation has worked and I now have an additional hard drive on my system. I was able to straighten out the original drive from some backups. Every challenge in FreeBSD is such an incredible learning experience. Thanks once again. Dave On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 08:27 -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Dave Webster <dwebman@telus.net> writes: > > > To solve a problem I'm having with /var running out of space, I decided > > to add a second hard drive. > > > > I found info at freebsd.org on adding disks using sysinstall and > > followed the advice. The old disk is a Maxtor 6Y080L0 80G as ad0 and > > the new disk is a Maxtor 6Y120P0 as ad3. I ran sysinstall, chose ad3 > > and parition it with: / 512M, /swap 2G, /tmp 3G, /var 4G, /usr > > 30G, /data 76G. Did an installation with Kern source and documentation. > > Added a new user, and set a password for root. I added the FreeBSD boot > > manager. > > > > I rebooted to ad0 (didn't have the FreeBSD boot manager on this drive > > yet), and found I could no longer login as the regular user and that my > > root password was the one I had just set up on ad3. I adduser my old > > login and assigned it the original ID and got back the settings in my > > home directory, although I don't know what I've doen to the > > configuration files in /etc. > > > > I tried to put the FreeBSD boot manager on ad0 with: > > boot0cfg -B ad0 but get an erro: > > boot0cfg: open /de/ad0: no such file or directory > > > > I've googled this problem but have found little help except that it > > shouldn't happen and it should be reported. > > > > I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 stable. I'm temped to start over from scratch > > but would hate to lose everythin on ad0 without first transferring it to > > ad3. I've tried to mount ad3 and ad3c (the only references to ad3 > > in /dev) using: > > mount /dev/ad3 /mnt/bigdrive but get an error: > > mount: /dev/ad3 on /mnt/bigdrive: incorrect super block > > > > So I'm pretty lost. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've spent > > 4-5 hrs googling for solutions but nothing seems to work. > > It sure *sounds* like you accidentally did your install to the old > disk instead of the new one. If that is the case, then your old data > are indeed lost -- overwritten with the new install. > > Also, it sounds like you were following the advice for moving your > whole system to the new disk, whereas the advice for *adding* the new > disk to the old one would have been more appropriate. That's the > "disk formatting tutorial" article in the documentation collection.
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