Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 10:55:49 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Greg Pavelcak <gpavelcak@philos.umass.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ccd Message-ID: <19980118105549.55824@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.980117083928.2007B-100000@lessing.oit.umass.edu>; from Greg Pavelcak on Sat, Jan 17, 1998 at 08:48:06AM -0500 References: <Pine.OSF.3.96.980117083928.2007B-100000@lessing.oit.umass.edu>
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On Sat, Jan 17, 1998 at 08:48:06AM -0500, Greg Pavelcak wrote: > I'm running short on hard disk space, and I'm thinking about getting a > new drive to add to my setup. That leads me to a few ccd questions. I > hope this isn't a repost. I've been getting my lists now for over two > days and haven't seen it show up. > > 1. Any advice on what to read on ccd. I read man ccd, man ccdconfig, > and the diskformat tutorial. They seem to be more for the person who > understands what ccd is but doesn't know how to make it happen on > FreeBSD. Yes, the CCD man pages are not the best documentation available. Unfortunately, I don't know anything better. > 2. Can you ccd IDE devices, Yes. > 3. Can you do ccdconfig at any time. That is, it seems like something > one would want to do early on, perhaps at the beginning of the > installation process, and then make file systems on ccd. I don't think you could have a CCD root file system: there's a chicken and egg problem inherent in this, since the boot doesn't understand CCD. I also strongly suspect that you wouldn't be able to start the CCD system before installation, though I could be wrong about that. If I were doing this now, I would probably install normally (if necessary), back up the non-root file systems, reboot in single-user mode, repartition and create file systems for CCD, and then restore the data. Greg
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