From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 19 18:36:56 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA29165 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 18:36:56 -0800 Received: from fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu (Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA29156 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 18:36:51 -0800 Received: (from jfieber@localhost) by fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA08826; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 21:36:39 -0500 Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 21:36:38 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber X-Sender: jfieber@fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu To: Joerg Wunsch cc: "Marc G. Fournier" , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding New Hard Drives: A Major Complaint In-Reply-To: <199511190927.KAA29641@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 19 Nov 1995, J Wunsch wrote: > As Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > > ...but this OS does not have a utility that will allow one > > to add a new drive onto an existing system. > > > > I've looked at 'man -k disk', and about the only things I > > find are 'fdisk' and 'disklabel'...neither of which helps in anyway. > > That's basically what you need to add a new disk, yes. Perhaps also > an editor for /etc/fstab. > > Arguably, the user interface is terrible, but you can hardly claim > it's not there. Depending on where you sit on the novice to wizard continum, a terrible interface == no interface. For bringing a new disk online, I'd say that the point is way too far toward the wizard end. Even for fairly seasoned FreeBSD users, this can be a frustrating experience. "How do I add a second disk" probably ranks in the to 10 frequently asked questions. -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ============