From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 20 23:35:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA02935 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 23:35:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [192.109.159.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA02925 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 23:35:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) id IAA06680; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 08:15:23 +0100 (MET) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by gun.de (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA25859; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 08:07:04 +0100 (MET) From: Andreas Klemm Message-Id: <199603210707.IAA25859@gun.de> Subject: Re: Adding a damn 2nd disk To: dave@kachina.jetcafe.org (Dave Hayes) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 08:07:04 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199603202044.MAA05712@kachina.jetcafe.org> from Dave Hayes at "Mar 20, 96 12:44:16 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL13 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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*. Ok ;-) I only wanted to say, that it's possible to add a 2nd hd ;-) Even if this method via disktab is a bit outdated. But it works. > 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. You seem to be right here. I didn't know better, sorry. [ concerning verbose boot messages ] boot -v does report SCSI geometry, too. New kernel isn't necessary. > >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? I did already ... But here the whole cake: /dev/sd0s3b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/sd1b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/sd0a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/sd0s3d /local ufs rw 1 1 /dev/sd0s3e /www ufs rw 1 1 /dev/sd0s3f /news ufs rw 1 1 /dev/sd0s3g /var ufs rw 1 1 /dev/sd0s3h /usr ufs rw 1 1 /dev/sd1a /rel ufs rw 1 1 proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 /dev/sd0s3b /tmp mfs rw 0 0 /dev/sd0s1 /dos msdos rw,noauto 0 0 /dev/cd0a /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0a /disk/a msdos rw,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0a /disk/b ufs rw,noauto 0 0 You can add as many swap spaces as you like and they will be used. > 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. Best would be to wait for the real solution after reading Terry's comments... Andreas /// -- andreas@knobel.gun.de /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ $$ Support Unix - aklemm@wup.de $$ pgp p-key http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html >>> powered by <<< ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz >>> FreeBSD <<< "Ich bleibe bei der Aussage und trotze den Flames. :-)" Ulli Horlacher 02/96