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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!metro!metro!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!ruby.cse.ucsc.edu!not-for-mail From: eric@cse.ucsc.edu (Eric Rosen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Installing SCSI Date: 20 Mar 1996 01:30:41 -0800 Organization: Image Processing & Multimedia Lab (UC Santa Cruz) Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4ioj81$m5c@ruby.cse.ucsc.edu> References: <DoJIJF.83v@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ruby.cse.ucsc.edu Just run /sbin/disksetup and create one or more UNIX partitions as you see fit, and write the label. You don't need boot blocks unless you intend to boot from the drive. Then run newfs on each of the partitions on the new disk that you have created. Be careful here. Finally, mount the partitions, adding them to /etc/fstab if you wish. But first, read the man pages: disksetup (8) - read and write disk labels newfs, mfs (8) - construct a new file system mount (8) - mount file systems fstab (5) - static information about the filesystems --Eric