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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.stealth.net!demos!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Would someone give me a clue about partitioning a new disk Date: 24 Aug 1996 07:31:07 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4vmb3r$96f@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4vid6o$12il@fidoii.cc.lehigh.edu> <4vkp9c$l67@tst.hk.super.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 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E silee@news.hk.super.net (Mr Simon Lee) wrote: > : I just added a scsi drive (Seagate 2GB Barracuda) on an Adaptec 2940 > : controller to a working freebsd system. I have no problem doing a > : newfs on the entire drive, but I can't seem to figure out how to > : partition it into smaller pieces and be able to run newfs on those > : pieces. > > try fdisk /dev/rsd1 This won't get you further. fdisk tables are fairly meaningless for BSD. (They are only meaningful for disks shared with other systems.) -- 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. ;-)