From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 19 01:30:13 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id BAA20788 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 01:30:13 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA20744 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 01:29:51 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA03262; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 10:29:37 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA23083; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 10:29:35 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id KAA29641; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 10:27:00 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199511190927.KAA29641@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Adding New Hard Drives: A Major Complaint To: scrappy@hub.org (Marc G. Fournier) Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 10:27:00 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Marc G. Fournier" at Nov 19, 95 01:33:55 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1229 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > Either I'm missing something really simple, or its missing... > > ...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. (Indeed, that's what everybody else is using, or don't you think we have to add a disk ourselves ervery now and then?) If you feel inspired, take the libdisk (/usr/src/release/libdisk), have a look at the tst01.c program there (a demonstration, basically the same like the wizard mode in sysinstall), and wrap a nice front- end around it. Don't forget to put a BSD-like Copyright on top, and contribute us your code. That's how this system is actually evolving... You can also pay somebody for making it. This would accelerate the process. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)