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From: brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: New hard disk
Date: 24 Mar 1997 17:02:39 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <33333ED7.410B@wavefront.com>,
aimee abbott <aimee@wavefront.com> writes:
> abbott at MPCA wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone!
>>
>> It seems like this is an age old question. I have been looking on the
>> net and I can't seem to find any where that posts a step by step
>> instruction of how to add a second hard drive to my bsd system. If
>> anyone knows of a web page that has such information could you please
>> send me the URL. I have been through most of www.FreeBSD.org with still
>> questions unanswered. -- Advance thanks.
>
> OK, here is some updated information. What I am doing is adding a
> second hard drive to an exsiting system. I have tried to step by step
> follow
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/FAQ/FAQ39.html#39
> I can seem to fdisk from sysinstall just fine. Then I try to do the
> label editor
> Disk: wd1 Partition name: wd1s1 Free: 0 blocks (0MB)
> Part Mount Size Newfs Part Mount Size
> Newfs
> ---- ----- ---- ----- ---- ----- ----
> -----
> wd1s1e /pca 1024MB UFS Y
> wd1s1b <none> 64MB SWAP
> wd1s1f /scr 927MB UFS Y
>
>
> and I am trying to use the whole 2gig drive and I create a 1024M and I
> say to mount it at /pca, then I create a 64M and I make that swap, then
> I create 927M and mount it /src. When I try to write I get an error,
> Unable to add /dev/wd1s1b as a swap device: device not configured
> I say OK to that and then I get
> Error mounting /mnt/dev/wd1s1e on /mnt/pca : No such file or directory
> When I say OK to that one I get
> Error mounting /mnt/dev/wd1s1f on /mnt/scr :No such file or directory
>
> If I give up on life being easy and I try to do a manual disk label, I
> get the following.
>
> # disklabel -r /dev/rwd1s1
> # /dev/rwd1s1:
> type: ESDI
> disk: wd1s1
> label:
> flags:
> bytes/sector: 512
> sectors/track: 63
> tracks/cylinder: 255
> sectors/cylinder: 16065
> cylinders: 256
> sectors/unit: 4127760
> rpm: 3600
> interleave: 1
> trackskew: 0
> cylinderskew: 0
> headswitch: 0 # milliseconds
> track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds
> drivedata: 0
>
> 8 partitions:
> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
> c: 4127760 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 -
> 256*)
> #
>
> This does not look right to me. No e: or f: and no swap.
>
> Any advice would be appreciated here.
>
> --ja
>
> John Abbott
> jabbott@wolf.co.net
I'm not sure what's wrong with sysinstall (have you got the
necessary wd1s1? devs in /dev ?), but try doing a
disklabel -r -e wd1s1
and replacing that last line with
a: 2097152 0 4.2BSD 0 0
b: 131072 2097152 4.2BSD 0 0
c: 4127760 0 unused 0 0
e: 1898496 2228224 4.2BSD 0 0
Then update /etc/fstab...
All I've done is multiplied your numbers by 2048 (the number of
512byte sectors in a Mb) and done some adding.
It's best to have a partition before the 'b' partition as a UFS-
formated disk has enough blank space at the start for the label.
Swap doesn't (and shits all over it) - at least it used to a
few years ago.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !