On Tuesday 13 March 2007 13:05, Aitor San Juan wrote: > Hi List, > > I am trying to install a secondary hard disk in a Intel-based PC > with FreeBSD 5.4 > > This secondary disk's capacity is 250 Gb. When I enter sysintall > to try to format it and create a slice, FreeBSD says that the > geometry of disk is not correct. I, then, type in the values detected > by the BIOS as suggested, but FreeBSD still complains that those > are not valid. FreeBSD sees the new disk as a disk of approx. 131 GB. > > So my question is: where is the problem? Is it that FreeBSD is not > able to recognise such a big disk capacity? > > Any hint, suggestion, or web link would be highly appreciated.
Assuming the new disk is ad4, and you want a single FreeBSD slice/partition/FS covering the whole disk: fdisk -BI /dev/ad4 bsdlabel -wB /dev/ad4s1 newfs -U /dev/ad4s1a See the manpages for each command for more details. The -B flags aren't necessary if you never plan to boot from the new disk, but they don't hurt anything either. If you want multiple FreeBSD partitions you could run a "bsdlabel -e" after the first bsdlabel command above, and additional newfs commands as appropriate. Continuing the example above, you could do: mkdir /newdisk mount /dev/ad4s1a /newdisk echo "/dev/ad4s1a /newdisk ufs rw 2 2" >> /etc/fstab To both mount the new filesystem and have it mounted automatically at boot. See the fstab manpage for details about that. (You could of course use a text editor to modify fstab instead of the echo command above.) JN _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"