Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 21:53:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert <robert@namodn.com> To: Onur Toker <onur@ccse.kfupm.edu.sa> Cc: george vagner <kf7nn1@cybertrails.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Harddisk > 2GB, what to do ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981224215003.17337B-100000@namodn.com> In-Reply-To: <368360B5.EF128513@ccse.kfupm.edu.sa>
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I think the way you would do this ( through sysinstall ) is to have just / on the second harddisk, and then mount /dev/wd1se ( or whatever is is ) It looks like you want two mount points out of this second drive, and I'm not sure how to do that since I haven't done it before :) -rob ( www.namodn.com ) ( robert@namodn.com ) On Fri, 25 Dec 1998, Onur Toker wrote: > Greg, > > First of thank you very much for your patience. I have > /, /usr and /var already mounted on the first harddisk. I am trying > to add a disk of size > 2.1GB. What should I do to do this manually > without using /stand/sysinstall ? > > Onur > > george vagner wrote: > > > > where is your / partition and your /var and /usr? > > > > you need these.. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Onur Toker <onur@ccse.kfupm.edu.sa> > > To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>; onur@ccse.kfupm.edu.sa > > <onur@ccse.kfupm.edu.sa>; questions@FreeBSD.ORG <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > > Date: Thursday, December 24, 1998 7:40 PM > > Subject: Re: Harddisk > 2GB, what to do ? > > > > >Greg Lehey wrote: > > >> > > >> On Friday, 25 December 1998 at 2:01:43 -0300, Onur Toker wrote: > > >> > Hello, > > >> > > > >> > I have a harddisk of size 4.3GB. Can you please tell me > > >> > step by step what should I do to use it with my FreeBSD box ? > > >> > > >> No. > > >> > > >> > I tried to use /stand/sysinstall but it gave error messages. > > >> > By the way, I am using 2.2.1. > > >> > > >> You haven't told us the error messages. How can we guess what's gone > > >> wrong? There's no problem installing on disks of this size, though > > >> you should consider installing a newer version of FreeBSD. > > >> > > > > > > First of all my system recognize 2 harddisks, wd0 and wd2 (No CDROM > > >attached, both harddisks are connected as master). > > > > > >wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa > > >wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <WDC AC22000L> > > >wd0: 1907MB (3907008 sectors), 3876 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S > > >wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa > > >wdc1: unit 0 (wd2): <WDC AC24300L> > > >wd2: 4112MB (8421840 sectors), 8912 cyls, 15 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S > > > > > >Then I go to disk partition editor and generate 2 partitions of size > > >2000M. > > >They are wd2s1 and wd2s2. > > > > > >Disk name: wd2 FDISK Partition > > >Editor > > >DISK Geometry: 524 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 8418060 sectors > > > > > > Offset Size End Name PType Desc Subtype > > >Flags > > > > > > 0 63 62 - 6 unused 0 > > > 63 4080447 4080509 wd2s1 3 freebsd 165 > > >C > > > 4080510 4080510 8161019 wd2s2 3 freebsd 165 > > > 8161020 260820 8421839 - 6 unused > > >0 > > > > > > > > > > > >Then I write these changes and go to the disk label editor. > > > > > > I see two disks named wd2 with partition names wd2s1 and wd2s2. Then I > > >create to file systems > > > > > > FreeBSD Disklabel Editor > > > > > >Disk: wd2 Partition name: wd2s1 Free: 0 blocks (0MB) > > >Disk: wd2 Partition name: wd2s2 Free: 0 blocks (0MB) > > > > > >Part Mount Size Newfs Part Mount Size > > >Newfs > > >---- ----- ---- ----- ---- ----- ---- > > >----- > > >wd2s1e /usr/home 1992MB UFS Y > > >wd2s2e /usr/WinHome 1992MB UFS Y > > > > > > > > >When I choose write these changes, I got error > > >messages. > > > > > > > > > Message > > > Error mounting /dev/wd2s2e on /usr/WinHome : Invalid argument > > > > > > > > >(100%) > > > [ OK ] > > > > > > [ Press enter to continue > > >] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Message > > > Error mounting /dev/wd2s1e on /usr/home : Invalid argument > > > > > > > > >(100%) > > > [ OK ] > > > > > > [ Press enter to continue > > >] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >So, what do you think ? In which step I am doing something wrong ? > > > > > > > > >> Greg > > >> -- > > >> See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > > >> finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > > > > > >Onur > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > -- > Dr. Onur Toker > College of Computer Science and Engineering > King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals > P.O. Box 14 > Dhahran 31261 > SAUDI ARABIA > > E-mail: onur@kfupm.edu.sa > onur@ccse.kfupm.edu.sa > > WWW : http://www.ccse.kfupm.edu.sa/~onur > > Tel : 966-3-860-2689 > Fax : 966-3-860-2965 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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