RE: Adding as a second hard drive
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam M Sent: June 1, 2006 8:04 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Adding as a second hard drive Yes, I was wondering what the best way was to add a second hard drive to my existing FreeBSD system, I searched the Handbook, but cannot find it. ___ It is in the Handbook, follow it to the teeth and you should be OK: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-adding.html Tamouh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Adding as a second hard drive
Yes, I was wondering what the best way was to add a second hard drive to my existing FreeBSD system, I searched the Handbook, but cannot find it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Adding as a second hard drive
You need to tell us what version of FreeBSD you are running. You will need to add the drive physically. You need to choose how the drive will be used: single filesystem or multiple filesystems. What mount points will you use for these file systems. In general you will need to partition the new drive drive, then run newfs on the new partitions to create the file systems. Once the filesystems are created you will need to edit /etc/fstab to set the mounting of these filesystems. I would recommend you reboot to test the setup of the new mounts. -Derek At 07:03 PM 6/1/2006, Adam M wrote: Yes, I was wondering what the best way was to add a second hard drive to my existing FreeBSD system, I searched the Handbook, but cannot find it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Adding as a second hard drive
Yes, I was wondering what the best way was to add a second hard drive to my existing FreeBSD system, I searched the Handbook, but cannot find it. Basic process: Get a good, that either works with your existing controller or also get a controller with is. eg. If it is SCSI and you only have SATA you will need another controller, etc. Install it in the box and boot the machine. Observe the boot messages or use dmesg to make sure it is recognized and that you know how the system is identified. It will probably be either da1 or ad1 depending on whether it is SCSI or SATA. Decide on how you want the new disk divided. Use fdisk to create a FreeBSD slice on the disk Use bsdlabel(or disklabel for 4.xxx systems and before) to create at least one partition within the slice. Use newfs to build a filesystem on all of the partitions you create with bsdlabel. create a mount point (for example 'mkdir /newdsk') Edit the /etc/fstab file to add an entry to make it mount upon boot. Mount the new disk(For example 'mount /newdsk' or just 'mount -a') The man pages for fdisk, bsdlabel and newfs have all the information you need but can be a little confusing. In the bsdlabel man page there are some examples near the bottom that are good. They suggest using dd to overwrite anything that might preexist in the first sector. That isn't always needed, but can fix things if that sector is a problem. Actually, I usually write around the first 100 sectors just for good measure when I need it. The only more complicated things are if you want to make more than one partition and/or slice, and if you want to be able to boot from it. More slices and partitions amounts to the same, but just require some calculations. Making it bootable requires using -B on both fdisk and bsdlabel. All this can also be done using sysinstall, but I prefer doing it straight up with the regular tools. Read the man pages. Good luck, jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
