Return to BSD News archive
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!newsreader.jvnc.net!netplex.co.in!vikas From: vikas@netplex.co.in (Vikas Aggarwal) Subject: Creating filesystem partitions Message-ID: <E2EMA9.wA@netplex.co.in> Summary: How to add extra fdisk partitions Organization: Netplex Technologies X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 12:49:20 GMT Lines: 32 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32590 (sorry if this is an easy one, but I have actually looked around ...) When I installed FreeBSD on my machine, I used the second fdisk partition for FreeBSD (the first one wd0s1 contains DOS, the FreeBSD partition is wd0s2). I also have a wd0a partition which is the root partition... I now wanted to use the remaining disk partitions also for FreeBSD. While installing FreeBSD 2.1.5, the sysinstall had a nice front end which made the partitions etc. and then went into the sub-partitions menu etc. etc. However, I cant seem to find that same frontend. I have run fdisk and sort of created the 3rd partition manually (wd0s3 ?) but dont know how to run disklabel (do I need to ?) I want to end up with creating wd0s3a wd0s3d etc etc which I can then newfs. Is there a FAQ somewhere for the disk naming etc. in FreeBSD ? I have worked a lot on Sun workstations, but the FreeBSD disk naming scheme has me beat!! Where did the /dev/wd0a come from (why is its naming different from the /dev/wd0sNc scheme) ? I thought I had taken notes while installing FreeBSD, but I guess I didnt take them detailed enough. -vikas