From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 8 13:41:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA23870 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 13:41:09 -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 NAA23860 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 13:41:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA02214; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 13:41:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 13:41:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Sys. Admin" cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: disk In-Reply-To: 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 Mon, 7 Oct 1996, Sys. Admin wrote: > Now the next step in the FAQ is to > exit and then run newfs /dev/wd1s1, etc to create the filesystem. It > then tells me that partition '1' is not available and then it tells me > that /dev/wd1sx (where x is 1-4) is not a character-special device. That is true. You want to give the raw name instead: newfs /dev/rdw1a to newfs the 'a' partition on wd1. > What am I doing wrong or better yet, how can I get this second drive up > with 2 swaps and 2 filesystem partitions up? You may be interested in the book 'FreeBSD Complete', available from Walnut Creek CDROM, which contains a section on how to add disks. Optionally, I have a long discussion on how to add disks -- if you'd like it I'll gladly send it via private email. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major