From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 30 10:50:13 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id KAA17151 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 10:50:13 -0700 Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.34]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA17135 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 10:50:05 -0700 Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id DAA16267; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 03:45:57 +1000 Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 03:45:57 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199508301745.DAA16267@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: fnf@amigalib.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 9Gb HD questions - FreeBSD 2.0.5 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >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