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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!hookup!swrinde!news.uh.edu!rodin!wjin From: wjin@rodin.cs.uh.edu (Woody Jin) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Add 2nd hard drive Date: 2 Sep 1994 15:38:19 GMT Organization: University of Houston Lines: 65 Message-ID: <347gtb$r8h@masala.cc.uh.edu> References: <341m5a$dju@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <1994Sep2.052039.2127@news.csuohio.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: rodin.cs.uh.edu In article <1994Sep2.052039.2127@news.csuohio.edu>, Steve Ratliff <stever@csuohio.edu> wrote: > > The 3 second answer is to get "Unix System Administration >Handbook" by Nemeth, Snyder, and Seebass. ISBN 0-13-933441-6 >A great book and about 80% applicable to Free/NetBSD. I understand that reading all those books / man pages and becoming a unix guru is the best way to handle all these problems, but I hope that there would be some FAQ entries which explains such things step-by-step for the new users, so that they can just do it by following those steps one-by-one. I am not really a new user, I somehow understood when I read those materials. But when I need to do it again after a while, I have to re-read all those stuffs, which takes quite a time. For some well known procedures (such as adding one more disk, ...etc.) I hope that there should be FAQ entries which explains clearly and easily. I think that this is why programmers write functions, and libraries, modules, ...etc., rather than saying, "Read the C programming manual or Unix programming manual and you should be able to program what you need." > >to see how your existing drive is set-up. You will need to know from >the new drive's data sheet how many cylinders, heads, and sectors/track >it has. You then get out a calculator and start writing your disktab >entry making sure that you allocate partitions in whole cylinder >groupings. You multiply the number of heads times the number of sectors >in a track to get the number of sectors/cylinder. Assign multiples of >this number to each partition. I found that there are several bad blocks. I fixed them with MS-DOS scandisk. Should those bad blocks be counted in the above sector numbers ? How does FreeBSD handle bad blocks ? The FAQ only says (as far as I remember) that the bad block handling is not perfect. Knowing that I have some bad blocks (and were fixed using MS-DOS tools - I think that actually there were removed), should it be OK to use the disk ? (FreeBSD FAQ says, "Try and see", but you really don't know whether something goes wrong) If there are new bad blocks while running FreeBSD, how does FreeBSD file system handle ? > > ... [del] ... > Then read the disklabel man page and disklabel your drive. Then >read the newfs man page and newfs /dev/rwd1a and /dev/rwd1e. You then >run fsck on /dev/rwd1a and /dev/rwd1e. (CAUTION: MAKE SURE YOU DO THE >NEWFS ON *WD1* <--- AND NOT *WD0*) You then read the man page on fstab >and add entries for these mount points in /etc/fstab. Then reboot and >you should be set. Thanks, Steve for your kind answers. I was about to add one more disk and was trying to find time to read all those stuffs. >Steve -- Woody Jin