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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!nntp.gmd.de!stern.fokus.gmd.de!gmdtub!freebsd!gt From: gt@freebsd.first.gmd.de (Gerd Truschinski) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How do I add a drive? Message-ID: <7070@bigfoot.first.gmd.de> Date: 5 Jul 95 19:00:20 GMT References: <3t0ncq$5o9@buffnet2.buffnet.net> <coveDB24AH.2Fs@netcom.com> Sender: news@bigfoot.first.gmd.de Organization: GMD Berlin (FIRST) Lines: 33 In article <coveDB24AH.2Fs@netcom.com>, Cove Schneider <cove@netcom.com> wrote: :Superuser (root@buffnet.net) wrote: : :: I have an installed FreeBSD system that I would now like to add another :: scsi drive to. : :: Can someone point me to where I can find out how to do this without :: trashing the partitions that are currently there? : :: I cant find reference to this in the FAQ's. : :: Any help is appreciated. : :man 5 fstab :-- :Cove Schneider cove@netcom.com Have you tried it? I also have had the problem to add a second drive to my 2.0.5-RELEASE system. I always get a 'ioctl DIOCWLABEL: Operation not supported by device' So I got an old 2.0 bootdisk. Now I could disklabel and newfs the disk. But now I always get a 'sd1: rejecting partition in BSD label: it isn't entirely within the slice' I think, something is broken. /gT/ -- Gerd Truschinski | Yes, this is the sort of scenario I gt@freebsd.first.gmd.de | think up to amuse myself in the evenings. emma@cs.tu-berlin.de | -- with confirmation from Larisa