From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 2 4:55:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wat-border.sentex.ca (waterloo-hespler.sentex.ca [199.212.135.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02E2C37B57C for ; Tue, 2 May 2000 04:55:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite-atm.sentex.ca [209.112.4.1]) by wat-border.sentex.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA34765; Tue, 2 May 2000 07:55:38 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from chimp.simianscience.com (ospf-mdt.sentex.net [205.211.164.81]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id HAA18281; Tue, 2 May 2000 07:55:37 -0400 (EDT) From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: blake@pyramus.com (Blake Swensen) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding Hard disks (simple howto please) Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 11:52:25 GMT Message-ID: <390ec09a.111787762@mail.sentex.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2 May 2000 00:58:08 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >One of the things that I do very seldom is add/upgrade disks. When I >finally get the SCSI bus to see the new drives I cannot remember how to get >the doggone things to be sliced, partitioned. > >In this case, would someone please tell me the best way from a raw disk to >a newfs. Please include MAKEDEV, disklabel and newfs. You are probably safest to do it via /stand/sysinstall But check the faq, and check dejanews for the alternatives. http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/formatting-media/ Answers to questions like these have been answered many times before. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message