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Subject: Re: add a harddrive to an existing system
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Lowell Gilbert wrote:

>Eric F Crist <ecrist@secure-computing.net> writes:
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>
>>Where, in the handbook, can I find where to add a new hard drive to an
>>existing system?  I know vaguely that I need to do a newfs and such,
>>as well as an fdisk, but I don't know what all the options mean and
>>how to best optimize this drive.  Also, I'm thinking of obtaining an
>>identical drive as my system drive and performing a dump of sorts on a
>>schedule for backup purposes.  anyone have any insight?
>>    
>>
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>Not actually in the Handbook, but what you want is: 
>the "Disk Formatting Tutorial".
>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media/index.html
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>


There *is* a chapter in the handbook, however; it's Chapter 16 in
my latest doc build (but I don't think it's quite _new_).  Section .3,
entitled "adding disks", covers the scenario quite well.

HTH,

Kevin Kinsey