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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!unix.sri.com!csl.sri.com!news!gilham From: gilham@lily.csl.sri.com (Fred Gilham) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Adding second disk drive Date: 30 Aug 1995 01:08:29 GMT Organization: Computer Science Lab, SRI International Lines: 33 Message-ID: <GILHAM.95Aug29180829@lily.csl.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lily.csl.sri.com Hello, I'm setting up a `net server' FreeBSD box (I hope to be followed by a couple more for use as file servers) and I need to add multiple disks. I`ve added a Seagate 4gb hawk drive to the system and struggled with it this afternoon to get it labeled so I could newfs it. I get various error messages, such as Aug 29 17:40:03 phlox /kernel: sd1: raw partition size != slice size Aug 29 17:40:03 phlox /kernel: sd1: start 32, end 8385898, size 8385867 Aug 29 17:40:03 phlox /kernel: sd1c: start 32, end 8380931, size 8380900 and an error from newfs about the calculated sectors/cylender not matching the disk label. But things seem to work. However, this all makes me nervous. Is there a step-by-step description of how to add a new disk? I've gone from dos fdisk to FreeBSD fdisk to disklabel and back again trying to get everything to work, and the process doesn't seem real clean. There is nothing in the FreeBSD FAQ or handbook or anywhere else that I can find. What I'd like is a description of the process of getting from a pristine disk, untouched by DOS or anything else, to a disk that FreeBSD can mount. Thanks, -- Fred Gilham gilham@csl.sri.com King Christ, this world is all aleak, / And life preservers there are none, And waves that only He may walk / Who dared to call Himself a man. -- e. e. cummings, from Jehovah Buried, Satan Dead