Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 17:44:43 -0500 From: "Andrew Webster" <awebster@dataradio.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to add a 2nd disk Message-ID: <199508312146.RAA16323@vhf.dataradio.com>
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I've been banging my head against the wall for the past hour trying to add
a 2nd IDE drive to an existing FreeBSD 2.0.5 system, and just
accidentally blew away my partition table on the existing system.
Is there a simple easy to use utility that will:
1. Partition the disk (ie: fdisk)
2. Create and install a sane disklabel.
Disklabel has been giving me all sorts of wierd errors from ioctl:
DIOCWDLABEL and DIOCWDINFO about read-only file systems, possible
shrinking file systems and Operation not supported.
Under freebsd 2.0, sysinstall allowed you to partition a disk and label it
without doing anything else. Under 2.0.5, you have to commit the
operation, and then it installed onto WD0 after explicitly asking for it
do work on WD1.
Sorry about the tone of the message, but as you can quite well imagine,
I'm a little upset!
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