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From: migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de (Michael Giegerich)
Subject: Re: disklabel - new disk
Organization: private FreeBSD site
Message-ID: <D8u9BF.2wr@luva.lb.bawue.de>
References: <rturner.800854483@imagen>
Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 18:42:51 GMT
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In article <rturner.800854483@imagen>, Randy Turner <rturner@imagen.com> wrote:
>I thought the sequence of events for adding a new disk to FreeBSD 2.0
>was:
>	disklabel -w sd1
>	newfs	....etc....

For a brand new disk you have to create a disktab entry including
the d partition which stands for the whole drive.

Then do a disklabel -w /dev/rsd1d drivetype_in_your_disktab

Then you can proceed with newfs'ing the partitions and so on...

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Michael Giegerich, E-Mail: migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de, Voice: +49 7144 39337