From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 29 14:16:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA25695 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 14:16:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA25663 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 14:16:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA00920; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 14:16:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 14:16:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Mark Cheeseman cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding a second disk - what am I missing? In-Reply-To: <199609292121.VAA01077@bbq.websource.com.au> 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 Sun, 29 Sep 1996, Mark Cheeseman wrote: > I've installed and run FreeBSD on several systems but until now, I've > never had occasion to add an extra hard drive to an existing system. > Now I do, and can't get it to work:-( This is a continually evolving topic... > I'm following the entry in the FAQ titled "How can I add my new hard > disk to my FreeBSD system?", but am not getting very far. I've > partitioned and labelled the new drive (a single file system over the > whole drive) using /stand/sysinstall. That much seems to be fine... OK... > Then the FAQ says "newfs /dev/sd0s1". I get two errors at this point: > the first says it's not a character-special device (if I use > /dev/rsd0s1 I get around this problem). The next message is a little > less helpful: "newfs: /dev/sd0s1: `1' partition is unavailable". You need to specify a BSD partition, ie a,d,e etc. I assume you're using the entire disk and don't want to partition it, so newfs the a drive: newfs /dev/rsd0s1a Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major