Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 08:32:44 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Cc: sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au Subject: Re: How to add another disk (or slice/partitions/disklabels - confusion) Message-ID: <199508240632.IAA21971@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <v01530500ac6192d04f32@[194.150.2.33]> from "Jacques Caron" at Aug 24, 95 04:24:10 am
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As Jacques Caron wrote: > > >I'm using disklabel -r -e /dev/rsd1, it pulls up something reasonable,... > Write to /dev/rsd1sx where x is the fdisk partition you use. Always use the disklabel command with a simple disk name (`sd1'), and let it up to the command to figure out which device node to use. Btw., for drives that are dedicated to FreeBSD, the `old way' works quite well: don't care for the fdisk entries, setup an entry in /etc/disktab (start the partition at sector 0), and finally: disklabel -r -w sd1 mydiskname disklabel -B sd1 (The latter is needed to supress the ``Invalid partition table: no magic'' warning.) libdisk (that is used by sysinstall) should learn how to do this, too, so people with dedicated drives wouldn't have to undergo that damn DOS geometry hell. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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