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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Hard drive configuration Date: 27 Jan 1996 21:55:54 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4ee71a$np9@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4e9fk1$r0h@taz.edmonds.ctc.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit sf@taz.edmonds.ctc.edu (Scott Farrand) writes: > Is there a concise list of steps necessary to label/slice/format a new > drive for use with FreeBSD? For an _entirely_ dedicated drive (no MessDog in reach at all): Get the disklabel(8) command from FreeBSD-current. Run: disklabel -r -B -w sd1 auto disklabel -e sd1 ..and edit the partitions on the drive as you need. (I assume the new drive is the second SCSI drive in the example.) Then, say you've reserved some sectors in partition `b' for swapping (always a good idea), and left the remaining portion of the disk as partition `e' for a file system: newfs -d0 /dev/rsd1e ..and finally include the lines for /dev/sd1b and /dev/sd1e into /etc/fstab. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)