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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!kithrup.com!news.Stanford.EDU!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!cmcl2!news.nyu.edu!usenet From: sdp4198@is2.nyu.edu (Shoel Perelman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: disklabel, newfs, etc.--> Adding a second SCSI drive?! Date: 4 May 1996 05:12:00 GMT Organization: NYU Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4meov0$u4k@news.nyu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dial4-2-async-07.dial.net.nyu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.6 I've got a system setup with one IDE drive (all bootable and working fine) and a SCSI drive (not working yet). I need to format and get the SCSI drive up and running with its own filesystem, etc. I am having a hard time finding a doc explaining exactly what needs to be done. I've gathered (from miscellenous scattered hints) that I need to use newfs, disklabel and some other stuff. 1) Is there a good FAQ to explain all this (like the myriad great linux FAQs)? 2) If not, could someone post a quick explanation of how to do this? I'm at the point where I can see the drive if I do fdisk /dev/sd0 and I can creat a partition on it when I boot off the Free bsd setup disk. I can't seem to get to that nice partitioning utility the bootup install disk has without actually booting the install disk. Does it have a name once you are already booted up? (eg. linux's setup). It seems I now need to use disklabel, but I need a disktype entry. Am I supposed to create this myself in /etc/disktab? I almost can't beleive one has to go through this when I know perfectly well that Freebsd KNOWS my drive's specs - it reports them when I do disklabel /dev/sd0! Do they expect me to copy all these parameters by hand into disktab? After the disklabel ordeal, will newfs magically know which drive I wish to create a new fileysstem on? Any help or a pointer in the right direction would be GREATLY appreciated! At this point, I have this feeling of being lost in FReebsd even though I'm a 2 year veteran of linux. I guess I have this feeling due to the apparent lack of FAQ besides the main one and the handbook (maybe I don't know where to look?). Thanx, -Shoel Perelman