From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jan 22 14:23:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA22026 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 14:23:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from sivka.carrier.kiev.ua (root@sivka.carrier.kiev.ua [193.125.68.130]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA21915 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 14:22:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from elvisti.kiev.ua (uucp@localhost) by sivka.carrier.kiev.ua (Sendmail 8.who.cares/5) with UUCP id AAA06904 for freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 23 Jan 1996 00:24:17 +0200 Received: from office.elvisti.kiev.ua (office.elvisti.kiev.ua [193.125.28.33]) by spider2.elvisti.kiev.ua (8.6.12/8.ElVisti) with ESMTP id PAA17289 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 15:21:44 +0200 Received: (from stesin@localhost) by office.elvisti.kiev.ua (8.6.12/8.ElVisti) id PAA16574; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 15:21:42 +0200 From: "Andrew V. Stesin" Message-Id: <199601221321.PAA16574@office.elvisti.kiev.ua> Subject: Re: Help! - How do I add more disk and swap? To: dk+@ua.net Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 15:21:41 +0200 (EET) Cc: craigs@os.com, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199601210105.DAA09145@dog.farm.org> from "Dmitry Kohmanyuk" at Jan 21, 96 03:05:46 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha5] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk # what you mean by "partitioning"? fdisk? this is not required at all, # unless you plan to have some non-FreeBSD filesystems on them. Are you _really_ sure? # Just make a /etc/disktab entry (read the beginning of the file for format). # read the man page for disklabel. Understand it. Look at your existing # label. Plan your layout (a: for root, b: for swap, e: for /usr - this # is for normal disk, you can make other but remember b: is always swap # and c: is entire slice and d: is not used now.) # # then disklabel -w -B sd1 your-disk-type # (assuming your new disk is sd1). # # run disklabel sd1 to verify. run disklabel -e sd0 to fix it if necessary. ^^^^ sd1, for sure [... no additions, that's all right ...] -- With best regards -- Andrew Stesin. +380 (44) 2760188 +380 (44) 2713457 +380 (44) 2713560 An undocumented feature is a coding error.