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#! rnews 1838 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.vcnet.com!news From: Jon Rust <jon@vcnet.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: adding disk/filesystems Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 21:41:23 +0000 Organization: VCNet Lines: 28 Message-ID: <31FFD303.6064@vcnet.com> References: <4tlgip$kc1@news.cc.utah.edu> Reply-To: jon@vcnet.com NNTP-Posting-Host: jon.vc.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Macintosh; I; 68K) To: Lloyd M Caldwell <lmc@acs.utah.edu> Lloyd M Caldwell wrote: > > Hello, > > I've spent 3 days studing: faq (local and net), handbook, > (local and net) man pages. I have experimented and read > code for disklabel, disktab, newfs, fdisk, and sysinstall > hoping to see what sysinstall did. > > I still have no idea how to create a file system on a new disk > added to my system. You're not the only one. I find the documentation on this sort of basic operation terribly inadequate. If you go to the FreeBSD documentation project there's a little asteric next to that section, along with countless others. With 2.1.5-RELEASE you can go back through the set-up (from the floppy only, from the boot drive crashes), select custom, enter in the EXACT data for your existing drives so as to not blow them away, and commit with no distributions set. Be sure to toggle the "newfs" option off in the label editor. Oh, and don't forget to back up your /etc/services, /etc/protocols, and /etc/sysconfig files first, as they will be toast after this process, despite what the set-up program tells you. Damn, Linux is looking better all the time. Jon