Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 03:45:57 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: fnf@amigalib.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 9Gb HD questions - FreeBSD 2.0.5 Message-ID: <199508301745.DAA16267@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>did work. What is the correct method for adding another drive after the >fact (I had no luck running fdisk/disklabel/newfs by themselves)? Learn how to use fdisk/disklabel/newfs. The simplest case is a new disk sd1 (with all zeros in the first 2 sectors) that you want to use entirely for FreeBSD: disklabel -B -r -w sd1 xxx newfs /dev/rsd1a newfs ... # any other partitions on disk where xxx is a suitable entry that you wrote and put in /etc/disktab. >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. Partitions of up to 1 TeraByte are supposed to work. There are no known problems with this. Files of 2GB or larger don't work. Bruce
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