Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 12:44:16 -0800 From: Dave Hayes <dave@kachina.jetcafe.org> To: Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.gun.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding a damn 2nd disk Message-ID: <199603202044.MAA05712@kachina.jetcafe.org>
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Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.gun.de> writes:
>Well, although I knew directly, that I have to fiddle around with
>disklabel, I'd suggest to people like you, to first do the most
>obviuos thing ... check the manpages.
I *did*.
>One look in /etc/disktab shows you what to do next, or not :->
But sysinstall doesn't *use* disktab...at least from what I
could figure out. Even if it does (hidden in there somewhere),
it sure doesn't leave an entry in the table after it is done.
>If you don't get the geometry of your SCSI disk, then please
>compile your kernel with the option 'SCSI_REPORT_GEOMETRY'
Hmm. Why isn't the default kernel configured to do this?
I knew not about this option, which makes sense.
But the problem is, fdisk doesn't seem to enable disklabel to
do it's job.
>Note, that I now have to swap areas for delayed paging, it's
>nice to distribute the swap load to two disks:
Do you have metrics for this that I can duplicate?
>Hope that helps a bit... If you are a kind person, you
>bring my tips into a nice form, best would be sgml based,
>and then it can move to the FreeBSD handbook.
Only if you can tell me why fdisk would NOT work in a given
situation. That's where I stumble. Do that, and I'll write
this up for the handbook.
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