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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.telstra.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!europa.clark.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: problem with adding new filesystems Date: 23 Feb 1997 01:55:53 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <5eo839$9p@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <330D559B.41C67EA6@genesis4.sps.mot.com> <330DB182.703313DE@hss.hns.com> 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 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35968 "Kapil Chowksey (Jaeger)" <kchowksey@hss.hns.com> wrote: > when I added an IDE disk to my fbsd 2.1.6, I did the foll. steps > manually : > > 1. fdisk > 2. mkfs > 3. edit /etc/fstab > > that's it - it worked for me. But not on FreeBSD. :-) 4.4BSD doesn't have a `mkfs', but a `newfs' instead. -- 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. ;-)