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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!news.uoregon.edu!news.rediris.es!newsfeed.mad.ibernet.es!hunter.premier.net!feed1.news.erols.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!uunet!not-for-mail From: Jason Brinkley <jlbrink2@eos.ncsu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Partitioning a Second Hard Drive with FBSD... Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 16:22:16 -0400 Lines: 21 Message-ID: <33CBDBF8.5E84@eos.ncsu.edu> Reply-To: jbrinkley@crosslogic.com NNTP-Posting-Host: gladness.crosslogic.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (WinNT; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44471 Can some one please help me out? I am using FreeBSD 2.2.2 and I just bought a new hard drive for the system. I am going to keep the root(/) partition intact(it's on my current primary hard drive). But, I need to make a /usr, a /tmp, and a /home partition on this new drive. The drive I have in there right now has each of those partitions on it, but I am going to transfer them all (except for root) to the new bigger drive. My question is this: What do I do to partition this new disk correctly and to format it correctly under the FreeBSD system? Do I have to use sysinstall? If I do, what steps so I have to take in sysinstall to get it partitioned correctly. I assume I don't have to make it bootable since the root(/) directory resides on the primary drive already and is bootable? I just need to get past the point of partitioning this thing. I can mount the drive and get the files copied over if I can get the drive formatted and partitioned correctly. Does anyone have some help that you can give me? Thanks, webmaster@crosslogic.com