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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!news.ci.com.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.dfn.de!news.uni-jena.de!news.HRZ.HAB-Weimar.DE!News.HTWM.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: adding a disk Date: 20 Feb 1996 01:22:12 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4gb7o4$d34@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31278A7E.41C67EA6@visual.is.net> 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 X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 Adam Mitchell <adamm@visual.is.net> writes: > I have a blank IDE drive (wd1). I want to use 96MB for SWAP and the > rest as /mnt_whatever. How do I initialize this blank disk? Try /stand/sysinstall. If the drive is intended to be *only* for FreeBSD, get a recent disklabel(8) command from FreeBSD-current, and try the following: disklabel -B -r -w wd1 auto disklabel -e wd1 # ...edit the partitioning data, use # partition `b' for the swap, and for # example `e' for /mnt_whatever newfs -d0 /dev/rwd1e Edit your fstab as you like. -- 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. ;-)