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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!news.uoregon.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news1.is.net!news From: Adam Mitchell <adamm@visual.is.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: adding a disk Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 20:22:22 +0000 Organization: The Internet Connection Lines: 35 Message-ID: <31278A7E.41C67EA6@visual.is.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: visual.is.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) CC: questions@freebsd.org 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? Here is my current "/etc/fstab" and "fdisk wd1" Thanks VERY much. AM /dev/wd0a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/wd0s3b none swap sw 0 0 proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 /dev/wd0s1 /dos msdos rw ******* Working on device /dev/rwd1 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=2100 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=2100 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 0 is: <UNUSED> The data for partition 1 is: <UNUSED> The data for partition 2 is: <UNUSED> The data for partition 3 is: <UNUSED>