From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 20 12:44:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA02627 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 12:44:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from kachina.jetcafe.org (kachina.jetcafe.org [206.117.70.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA02621 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 12:44:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([127.0.0.1]) by kachina.jetcafe.org (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA05712; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 12:44:17 -0800 Message-Id: <199603202044.MAA05712@kachina.jetcafe.org> To: Andreas Klemm cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding a damn 2nd disk Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 12:44:16 -0800 From: Dave Hayes Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Andreas Klemm 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. ------ >>> Dave Hayes - Altadena CA, USA - dave@jetcafe.org <<< What bread looks like depends upon whether you are hungry or not.