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From: fnf@amigalib.com (Fred Fish)
Subject: 9Gb HD questions - FreeBSD 2.0.5
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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 09:56:20 -0700 (MST)
Cc: fnf@amigalib.com (Fred Fish)
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Hi,

I recently tried to add a Seagate 9Gb ST410800N to a previously installed
FreeBSD 2.0.5 system, with no luck.  I ended up doing a reinstall of the
entire system and telling sysinstall to partition and label both the 
2Gb system disk and the 9Gb Seagate during the install process, which
did work.  What is the correct method for adding another drive after the
fact (I had no luck running fdisk/disklabel/newfs by themselves)?

On a related note, I partitioned the new drive with two 4000Mb
(slightly less than 4Gb) partitions and a smaller leftover.  That
seems to work, though I haven't yet filled them to capacity to make
sure that there are no problems with large partitions.  Should this
be OK or should I not go over 2Gb, as on Unixware, where this drive
came from.

Thanks for any tips!

-Fred