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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.belwue.de!news.belwue.de!delos.stgt.sub.org!nadia.s.bawue.de!luva!migieger From: migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de (Michael Giegerich) Subject: Re: disklabel - new disk Organization: private FreeBSD site Message-ID: <D8u9BF.2wr@luva.lb.bawue.de> References: <rturner.800854483@imagen> Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 18:42:51 GMT Lines: 15 In article <rturner.800854483@imagen>, Randy Turner <rturner@imagen.com> wrote: >I thought the sequence of events for adding a new disk to FreeBSD 2.0 >was: > disklabel -w sd1 > newfs ....etc.... For a brand new disk you have to create a disktab entry including the d partition which stands for the whole drive. Then do a disklabel -w /dev/rsd1d drivetype_in_your_disktab Then you can proceed with newfs'ing the partitions and so on... -- Michael Giegerich, E-Mail: migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de, Voice: +49 7144 39337