From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 25 18:45:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA21680 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 18:45:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from spruce.ucs.uwplatt.edu (spruce.ucs.uwplatt.edu [137.104.128.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA21673 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 18:45:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brunell@uwplatt.edu) Received: from uwplatt.edu ([137.104.144.42]) by uwplatt.edu (PMDF V5.1-5 #17356) with ESMTP id <01IST2NHUWGW9FM837@uwplatt.edu> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 20:45:34 CST Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 20:48:48 -0600 From: Matt Brunell Subject: creating FreeBSD partition To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-to: brunell@uwplatt.edu.NOSPAM Message-id: <34CBF98F.28581D74@uwplatt.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE i386) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Hello, I have FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE installed on my first hard disk, 800 megs is simply not enough space.... Anyway, I am trying to create a partition at the end of my third hard disk. a Maxtor 5.1 GIG I created a partition with the sysinstall prog, but newfs says /dev/wd20s4 isn't a special device Any Ideas? --Matt ---------- Remove NOSPAM at end of reply address to reply