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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!network.ucsd.edu!gulfaero.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!winzeler From: lwinzele@uiuc.edu (Loren Winzeler) Subject: mounting a partition on a 2nd IDE drive Message-ID: <C3r336.9JK@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Summary: Lot's o questions??? Keywords: disk IDE 386bsd swap Sender: winzeler@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Loren Winzeler ) Reply-To: lwinzeler@uiuc.edu (Loren Winzeler) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 00:37:39 GMT Lines: 61 Hello, This post consists of two questions (parts): 1) I am currently using running 386bsd off a 210 MB IDE drive (a western digital ac2200) and have given 120 mb to 386bsd. Since then I have outgrown that space and would like to take some space from my second IDE drive (an 80 mb western digital), which is currently formatted for DOS, and mount it under 386bsd. I understand the process involved and have extracted information from previous posts on the topic... but I am still confused on how to make a disktab entry for the partition on the second drive. It is possible to disklabel/newfs only half of my second IDE drive? The track/cyl/sector is the same for the whole drive and can be taken from fdisk (by creating and extended dos partition and taking the info from there)... is this correct? How does diskpart know to look at whichever partition of my drive? That is, I do not want to wipe out my resized DOS partition. Which shutdown/shutdown -h/shutdown -r will properly save my new partition info? 2) I would like to put a swap partition on this second drive for better performance (that is, separate it from the root fs). Does the generic installation from the Tiny BSD floppy even create a swap partition? I nothing except the root in my /etc/fstab. Will I need two partitions, one storage and one swap, on my second drive? Or does the reconfiguring the kernel take care of it? Can I just change the swap parameter to something like... swap wd1a 0 xxxxx xxxxx (device (amt for storage) (amt for swap) of 2nd disk) I'm a little in the dark on how the swap partitions work under 386bsd. Could someone shed some light? Lastly, what parts of the src01 distribution (directory of tree) do I need to reconfig the kernel? Is there an ftp site that keeps prepatched source so someone just starting to rebuild their kernels do not have to start from scratch? Thanks for any response, Loren -- Reach me at: CCSO University of Illinois Wolfram Research, Inc. winzeler@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu winzeler@wri.com